Bad Girl
By Jerry Jeff Walker
Written by Jerry Jeff Walker
Album: Scamp (1996)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
10/29/2020
  

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Hey let me tell you 'bout a girl I know
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Billie Courntey, she's the belle of Bandera, Texas

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Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know back there in my hometown
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She's the kind I like to go dancing with when the sun goes down
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One time she rode her horse into the cowboy bar, she mostly like to go camping underneath the stars
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She's got a reputation as a girl who likes to go too far


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She ain't a bad girl, she likes to do bad things
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She ain't a wild child, she just takes wild flings
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She really isn't nothing but her daddy's girl who grew up kind of horsey in a cowboy world
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Just when you think you know her, she turns around and goes her own way


There's things about the girl I like and things about her I don't know
I know she got divorced and had to pack 'er up and move back home
I know she loves to cook and sew up her own things and though she's separated, wears her wedding ring
There's time she stays out all night but mostly she goes home alone

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She got a hickey on her neck but what the heck she's flesh and blood
Now telling me she's sexy just like telling Noah about the flood
I know her voice is husky on the telephone, I know she loves to drive fast and sing Elvis songs
She says sleazy don't mean easy, buddy back off when you're coming on

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Just when you think you know her, she turns around and goes her own way
Just when you think you know her, she turns around and goes her own way