Tom Russell - Evangeline Hotel
CAPO: 3rd Fret
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well, she moves like Betty Grable
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She's an actress waiting tables
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And all her tips are kept inside a wishing well
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She's got an agent down the hall
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He's got her photo on his wall
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She's got a room at the Evangeline Hotel
[Verse 2]
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And from the tenth floor fire escape
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She can see the great white way
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But not the street and not the eyes of those who fell
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She dreams she sees her name in lights
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She dreams that dream every night
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Room ten-o-four at the Evangeline Hotel
[Chorus]
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It's "Rock of Ages Cleft for Thee"
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She's just a child of Tennessee
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Her daddy's girl, her golden curls locked in a spell
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Where you don't play your music loud
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And there ain't no men allowed
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On Friday nights at the Evangeline Hotel
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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You make it here, so they declare
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Then you can make it anywhere
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Those old clichés ring through the halls just like a bell
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But tell it to the ones who wait
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Behind the 23rd Street gate
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On Friday nights at the Evangeline Hotel
[Chorus]
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It's "Rock of Ages Cleft for Thee"
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She's going back to Tennessee
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She's got a watch and winter coat that she can sell
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She learned the hard unspoken rule
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And things you never learned in school
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All down the halls at the Evangeline Hotel
[Verse 4]
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And you can knock on any door
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Any room on any floor
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It's all the same at the Evangeline Hotel
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The house of dreams called the Evangeline Hotel
[Outro]
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