Petrified House

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She Sees The World Through Yellowing Lace
     C                            G      D
The World Hasn’t Seen Her Since Seventy-eight
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Except For The Nephew Who Used To Look In
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To Bring Her Her Chocolate And Tonic And Gin

[Verse 2]
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She Lives In One Room Of A Mansion Downtown
     C                            G      D
With Nothing But Strip Bars And Strip Malls Around
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It Used To Be Three Miles To Those Big Stone Gates
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Property Taxes Just Whittled It Away

[Chorus]
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She Believes Somehow That Nothing Has Changed
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Even Though Sherman Left Georgia In Flames
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Cotton’s Still King And The South Didn’t Fall
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As Long As Wisteria Climbs Up The Wall

[Verse 3]
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She Won’t Read The Paper And Won’t Watch The News
     C                            G      D
She Thinks It’s All Lies Made Up By New York Jews
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Her Daddy Said No Matter What The Laws Say
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Down Here We’ve Always Done Things Our Own Way

[Chorus]
 C                           G
She Believes Somehow That Nothing Has Changed
 D                           G
Even Though Sherman Left Georgia In Flames
 C                            G           C   Am
Cotton’s Still King And The South Didn’t Fall
 G                    D            G
As Long As Wisteria Climbs Up The Wall

[Verse 4]
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Some Day That Petrified House Will Fall Down
     C                            G      D
Like Everything It Will Return To The Ground
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Whatever It Stood For Will All Be Condensed
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To One Paragraph On A Plaque By The Fence

[Chorus]
 C                           G
She Believes Somehow That Nothing Has Changed
 D                           G
Even Though Sherman Left Georgia In Flames
 C                            G           C   Am
Cotton’s Still King And The South Didn’t Fall
 G                    D            G
As Long As Wisteria Climbs Up The Wall