127 Rose Avenue
by Hank Williams Jr.
127 Rose Avenue

Ab minor (please feel free to correct or transpose)

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Somewhere in the middle of the Deep South

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Magnolias sway in the breeze

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To the lonesome sound of a redbone hound
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Howlin' at the moon in the trees

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There's a sad boy with his guitar

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Cuttin' his teeth on the blues

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Wishin' on a fallin' star

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at 127 Rose Avenue

VERSE 2

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Distant moan of a midnight train comes

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Blowin' through the night

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He dips his pen in tears and pain

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And he begins to write

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'bout a whippoorwill too blue to fly

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and the Indian he once knew
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'bout lost highways and purple skies

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at 127 Rose Avenue

CHORUS:
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Caretaker said as he shook his head

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Son, do you believe in ghosts

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For a five dollar bill you can feel the chill

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He felt long ago

VERSE 3

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So I bought me a ticket at the front door

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Guess who was there inside

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I felt his presence through the whole tour

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God I swear, he was alive

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I saw the train, I felt the pain

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I heard him moanin' the blues

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29 years of memories

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at 127 Rose Avenue

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK

CHORUS

VERSE 4

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Another sad-eyed boy with his guitar

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Cuttin' his teeth on the blues

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Here I am wishin' on a fallin' star

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At 127 Rose Avenue

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK

It ain't in Nashville

It's not in Montgomery

127 Rose Avenue