A TRAMP THAT I ADORE (Gabe Zander/BMI) 2003

(mellow honky tonk beat)

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 She sent her face to me in a photograph,
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Posing with a switchblade and a cigarette, for to make me laugh.
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 The note attached said "Cheer up, dear, or you might catch
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 A rare Brazillian strain of poison monkey rash."
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 Everything she does, it seems, is to make me smile;
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 She'll drive for an hour, just to lie with me awhile.
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 Then, when she's gone, I'm sure she's out paintin' the town,
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 But I don't care, as long as she'll be back around,

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 And you can tell me I've completely gone insane,
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 And you can tell me all I'm feeling is in vain,
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 And you can tell me I'm buying myself a world of pain,
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But don't you tell me she's a tramp and nothing more,
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'Cause if she's a tramp, then she's a tramp that I adore.

She called me up, and said she was feeling blue;
I said "How about that, darlin', you know I am too?"
We were both being haunted by phantoms of our pasts,
So she came over and we made love, no strings attached.
Now she's been with some other guys, and I know a few,
And it makes me sick to hear 'em talk about her the way they do.
Well, if someone who's an angel to me, is just a whore to them,
I'll ditch 'em for that whore any day; I don't give a damn,

(chorus)
(break)

(closing chorus):

You can tell me I've completely gone insane,
And you can tell me all I'm feeling is in vain,
And you can tell me I'm buying myself a world of pain,
But don't you tell me she's a tramp, and nothing more,
'Cause if she's a tramp, then she's a tramp that I adore,
Engraved into my heart, forever more.