Man From Bowling Green

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She road a slow train to the city she was young and she was pretty

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A full grown mountain woman that had blossomed in the spring

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She took a job at waiting tables at the House of Seven Gables

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That's where she met the man from Bowling Green


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He was somewhat older with hair down on his shoulders

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And he knew how to touch a lady and he must have touched her dreams

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Sung her songs and called her baby till that country girl went crazy

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For that guitar picking man from Bowling Green


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Well he got what he was after and after that he left her

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He packed up his guitar caught a westbound train

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It was just another city where the country girls were pretty

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Easy picking for the man from Bowling Green


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Well he got what he was after and after that he left her

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He packed up his guitar caught a westbound train

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It was just another city where the country girls were pretty

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Easy picking for the man from Bowling Green


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Now her life is twisted like some West Virginia back-road

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And the House of Seven Gables has got a brand new queen

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To anyone that is buying she’ll drink to keep from crying

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For that guitar picking man from Bowling Green


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Yes she loved that guitar man from Bowling Green