Perfectly Good Guitar
John Hiatt

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Well he threw one down from the top of the stairs
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Beautiful women were standing everywhere
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They all got wet when he smashed that thing 
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But off in the dark you could hear somebody sing

CHORUS
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Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars
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Smashing a perfectly good guitar
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I don't know who they think they are
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Smashing a perfectly good guitar

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It started back in 1963
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His momma wouldn't buy him that new red Harmony
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He settled for a sunburst with a crack
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But he's still trying to break his momma's back.

REPEAT CHORUS
 
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He loved that guitar just like a girlfriend
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But every good thing must come to an end
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Now he just sits in his room all day
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Whistling every note he ever played

Solo
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      Em                G
There ought to be a law with no bail
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Smash a guitar and you go to jail
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With no chance for early parole
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You don't get out until you get some soul

REPEAT CHORUS

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Late at night the end of the road
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He wished he still had the old guitar to hold
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He'd rock it like a baby in his arms
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Never let it come to any harm

REPEAT CHORUS

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