BOBBY LEE (Gabe Zander/BMI) 2000

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Well, it happened several years ago, but it feels like yesterday;
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I got off work early, and went home to surprise my Mary with a rose boquet.
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Walked through the door, said "Honey, I'm home", and what do you suppose I'd see?
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Well, there was Mary cuddled up in the sheets with that scumbag, Bobby Lee.

     
When Bobby saw me, his jaw just dropped, and out the door he run;
Hopped in his car, and peeled away before I could grab my gun.
As I stood in the road and watched him disappear, some words finally came out of me;
I yelled "So help me, you son of a bitch, I'll get you, Bobby Lee."

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Bobby Lee, Bobby Lee, you'd better watch your back for me,
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'Cause when I find you, I'll pull my .357, and blow the caps off both your knees.
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I'm gonna beat you blue and black with a baseball bat, and swing you by the neck from a tree;
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You'd better run like hell when you catch sight of me, Bobby Lee.
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Oh, you'd better run like hell when you catch sight of me, Bobby Lee.

Well, this wasn't the first time she broke my heart; it'd happened several times in the past,
And every time, Mary'd swore to me that it would be the last.
So my face was red and the tears poured out as I stormed back in that door;
Though I'd never before hurt a hair on her head, I wasn't gonna let her go anymore.

I stuck my Smith and Wesson against her head, and asked her why,
But I didn't even bother to give her a chance to answer before she died.
I picked up the phone, about to turn myself in, when a thought just occured to me;
It was one down, one to go; I had to kill that Bobby Lee.

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Well, I took a good look at the work I'd done, then I headed out to my car,
Hit the gas, and ended up at Bobby's favorite bar.
I asked the waitress if she'd seen him; she said, "About twenty minutes ago,
"He stopped in to use the phone real quick, and then he headed right out the door."

She asked me what was wrong, and if I'd like to stay for a round;
I smiled at her, and shook my head, and politely turned her down.
I was about to go when two cops walked in; they were, no doubt, lookin' for me,
So I headed out the back, and started runnin' from the Law, and after Bobby Lee.

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Well, for three long years, I searched, without rest, every inch of the USA,
And tried to stay a step ahead of the Law; had some close ones along the way.
It was outside a Roadhouse in Houston; one night, I saw that bastard's car,
So I walked on in and sure enough, there he was, sippin' Jim Beam at the bar.

He was hittin' on a good-lookin' woman; she was, no doubt, another man's wife,
And at the moment that I saw him came the biggest rush I'd felt in my entire life.
I snuck on up behind him, so damn close I could hear him breathe;
Well, that fool must've messed himself when he heard, "HEY BOBBY, REMEMBER ME?!?!"

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Bobby Lee, Bobby Lee, just look what you've done to me;
Now you're gone and I'm set to join you, 'cause you had to screw with me.
I'm locked up, awaiting the needle, stripped of all my dignity,
'Cause I dropped that bitch named Mary, and that scumbag, Bobby Lee.
Oh, 'cause I dropped that bitch named Mary, and that scumbag, Bobby Lee.