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In downtown Modesto, I was working the Holiday Inn 
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We were set with a gig that would last us, throughout the week end 
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I was playing a new song I wrote, on the way into town 
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When she came in the front door, and found her a place to sit down 

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I knew right away, she knew the words to my songs 
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Cause she stared at my big guitar and followed my fingers too long 
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She had the likeness of a girl, I'd seen in a dream 
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But, lights can do wonders with makeup and faded blue jeans 

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The last thing I needed was somebody messin' up my mind 
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So I found a hundred reasons for turning away one more time 
          E 
She could cause me to sing bad 
                              A 
And fall out of love with gui tars 
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And blow all my chances of being a big singing star 

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With one passin' glance I could tell she was young for her age 
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Yeah she got to lookin' better as she got down closer to the stage 
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And as she sipped on her wine I knew just the kind she would be 
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And somehow I knew she was here to do bad things to me 

    E                                              A 
The last thing I needed was somebody messin' up my mind 
     E                                                 B7 
So I found a hundred reasons for turning away one more time 
          E 
She could cause me to sing bad 
                              A 
And fall out of love with gui tars 
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And blow all my chances of being a big singing star 

          E 
She could cause me to sing bad 
                              A 
And fall out of love with gui tars 
    E                      B                   E 
And blow all my chances of being a big singing star 
                       B 
Blow all my chances at being a country music star