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Tonight I hold the one I love far from the one at home 
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I picked her up some time ago and I never feel alone 
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I held on tight too many years to ever set her free 
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And though she's not a lady she still means the world to me 


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She's no lady but I love her, she's been known to be untrue 
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She's been knocked around and picked on, even dropped a time or two 
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She's been passed around at parties, sat on everybody's knees 
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This old guitar's changed hands a time or two but it still belongs to me 
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It still belongs to me  
 
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She's the one who keeps me from my wife and family half the time 
 
She haunts me and she drives me to these honky tonk dives 
 
I pick her up each evening as the neon starts to glow 
 
And hold her closer to my heart than any lady's ever known 
 
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