Crash Course in the Blues

To a boy from Indiana fresh off the farm

L.A. looks like heaven with its ever open arms

My mama said to watch yourself like mamas always do

Daddy said those city girls will walk all over you



So I hit the pavement running down on Hollywood and Vine

I got to town by seven and I fell in love by nine

She was a California angel wearing alligator shoes

She had that something that a poor boy can't refuse

She was incredible, she was

A crash course in the blues



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Now we're screaming down the freeway

In this fancy foreign car

Headed for another party

Never seen so many stars

Just when I thought I'd make my move

And ask her to be mine

She takes off with somebody else

And kisses me goodbye

She was incredible, she was

A crash course in the blues



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Well she was way too hard to handle

For a country boy like me

She's still a Roman candle

Burning in my memory

She was unbelievable, she was

A crash course in the blues



She was incredible, she was

A crash course in the blues

That's right



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