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nobody gets the cancer twice.   (a blues guitar riff) blood in the stool ain’t nobody’s fool, whent to high school did not graduate, but know it wasn’t no thing I ate scale greets me friendly like, long lost buddy from yesterday morn, ‘let get right down to it, let’s see how much less of you borne leftover alive from the prior day’ spirit spit blood from my gums, got me a woman, she’s way over town, woman said I’m brushing with too hard a brush, alright, alright, make no fuss, she’s good to me nobody’s fool whent to school, though I did not graduate, a mean riff is better than a slow moving woman blues cry, got the strings to do my screaming doctor is a fan, name is Jimmy, played music like last time round, Jimmy-jamming, dancing in the waiting room, “that cancer got kick, it’s gonna get ya, think I told ya that about hunner times before” ‘nobody gets the cancer twice,’ an old wives tale for unlucky po’ somofabitches, do you some tests, tell ya the specifics, right now, lay, lay down them new tracks, no quitting time less the good lord comes a-calling’ blues guitar makes a man cry shiver scream and shake, progressions licks and tricks, so you can’t tell what’s making a grownup man cry and laugh louder bring me my medicine bring me my guitar all I know is how it makes me feel, oh baby once a night it’s true, nobody gets the cancer twice
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 4:00 PM UTC
nobody gets the cancer twice (a blues guitar riff)
nobody gets the cancer twice.   (a blues guitar riff) blood in the stool ain’t nobody’s fool, whent to high school did not graduate, but know it wasn’t no thing I ate scale greets me friendly like, long lost buddy from yesterday morn, ‘let get right down to it, let’s see how much less of you borne leftover alive from the prior day’ spirit spit blood from my gums, got me a woman, she’s way over town, woman said I’m brushing with too hard a brush, alright, alright, make no fuss, she’s good to me nobody’s fool whent to school, though I did not graduate, a mean riff is better than a slow moving woman blues cry, got the strings to do my screaming doctor is a fan, name is Jimmy, played music like last time round, Jimmy-jamming, dancing in the waiting room, “that cancer got kick, it’s gonna get ya, think I told ya that about hunner times before” ‘nobody gets the cancer twice,’ an old wives tale for unlucky po’ somofabitches, do you some tests, tell ya the specifics, right now, lay, lay down them new tracks, no quitting time less the good lord comes a-calling’ blues guitar makes a man cry shiver scream and shake, progressions licks and tricks, so you can’t tell what’s making a grownup man cry and laugh louder bring me my medicine bring me my guitar all I know is how it makes me feel, oh baby once a night it’s true, nobody gets the cancer twice
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 4:00 PM UTC
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