Henry Jamison

Through A Glass

Henry Jamison


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Through a glass of the bottle
All is green and bent
and seeing her is dark and soft
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I went through hell and back again
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She was my dearest friend
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And she will go to heaven

(N.C.)
So maybe I can see her again

[Verse 1]
(Note: start strumming on "again" above, focus on the low strings and emphasize the hammer-on)
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Oh, my car will barely start

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I gotta get it to Vermont

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She spent her summers in Bar Harbor on her own

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working in a restaurant

[Verse 2]
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And she had a lot of boyfriends

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I count the ones I know

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as I shudder through New Hampshire

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On the radio

[Chorus]
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God-God-God damn that girl was fine

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and I was glad to call her mine

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She weren't mine and I weren't hers

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I lost her at the five and dime

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She was talking to a six-five ex-marine

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He was living out of his truck

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She said he was very fragile

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I said I don't give a fuck

[Verse 3]
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We went up and we went down

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She wanted to get out of town

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We were on a rollerocaster, they go nowhere

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they just send you back on the ground

[Chorus]
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God-God-God damn that girl was fine
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and I was glad to call her mine
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She weren't mine and I weren't hers
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I lost her at the five and dime
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She was talking to a six-five ex-marine
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He was living out of his truck
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She said he was very fragile
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