Johnny Cash - I Drove Her Out Of My Mind

johnny cash – i drove her out of my mind

album : out among the stars

intro : G D

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she gave me my walking papers

and ran off with someone new

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cuz he bought her things

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my wages couldn’t buy

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so i turned to ups and downers

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and everything between

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still i can’t get her good lovin’ off my mind

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well today i bought a cadillac

the kind she’s always wanted

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i called and asked her

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if she’d like to ride

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she said this is our last date

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i said that’s alright with me

cause tonight i’m driving her out of my mind

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yeah i’ll take her on a scenic cruise

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right off of lookout mountain

cause she said i never took her out

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when she was mine

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she’ll see all seven states

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as we drive to the pearly gates

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tonight when i drive her out of my mind

all the papers will read “lovers leap

again off lookout mountain”

cause i wrote a note

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that called it suicide

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but my epitaph will say

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“he killed his pain yesterday

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when he finally drove that woman off his mind

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well now here she comes to greet me

dressed to kill and so Am i

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hope she asks me if this

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cadillac will fly

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and i know that i’ll die laughin’

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when i show her that it will

when i drive that woman

right out of my mind

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yeah i’ll take her on a scenic cruise

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right off of lookout mountain

cause she said i never took her out

A
when she was mine

G
she’ll see all seven states

D
as we drive to the pearly gates

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tonight when i drive her out of my mind

they’ll say johnny cash was quite a smash

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down here in chatanooga

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last night when he drove her

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out of his mind

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yeah that cadillac dealer’s in for a big surprise too

99 dollars down , 99 dollars a month

yeah it’s gonna be just gorgeous

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( ooh to the pearly gates )
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( ooh to the pearly gates )
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( ooh to the pearly gates . . . )