[Intro]
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A thousand miles from Memphis
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There's a crime that left the coroner breathless
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It's like the newspapers tellin' that it's a matter of time
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Tom takes the turnpike for Trenton
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And the pistol shakes in the glove compartment
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He's got the dirt on his fingers and something worse on his mind
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If I wake in the resurrection
Stuck here with our thoughts in Trenton
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I, I'll stand beside you
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Kiss the ground like a radical mind
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'Til we're tossed down to the ground
Ghosts of this capital town
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Yankee streets that can't stand the heat
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If the heat's not settling down
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I'm gonna write me a letter
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To a woman in Memphis
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I'm gonna give her the words I never managed to say
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Sweet Virginia, the life that I would give you
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If not for my offenses
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I never state my intentions until the time slips away
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If I wake in the resurrection
Stuck here with our thoughts in Trenton
D# G Cm
I, I'll stand beside you
F
Kiss the ground like a radical mind
Fm
'Til we're tossed down to the ground
Ghosts of this capital town
A#
Yankee streets that can't stand the heat
Fm D#
If the heat's not settling down
A#
Yankee streets, you suffer like you mean it
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And another day is gone and you're still barely bleeding
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Yankee streets that can't stand the heat
Fm D#
If the heat's not settling down
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Yankee streets, you suffer like you need
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And another day is gone and you're still barely breathing
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Yankee streets that can't stand the heat
Fm D#
If the heat's not settling down
Down down
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Yankee streets that can't stand the heat
Fm D#
If the heat's not settling down
A#
Yankee streets that can't stand the heat
Fm D#
If the heat's not settling down
(You said you loved me but you left.)
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Yankee streets that can't stand the heat
Fm D#
If the heat's not settling down
A#
Yankee streets that can't stand the heat
Fm D#
If the heat's not settling down