I was playing every Monday on Burgundy in some shitty little bar
I was working on a novel called New Orleans Ain't No City - It's a Scar
The heroine does heroin, the hero wears his hair just like The King
He says, "It ain't my job to sweet talk you My job's just to sing"

I was loved once by a woman, she don't love me anymore
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And I won't never know no woman like the one I'd known
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And she don't love me anymore

Well the hero wears a hair-net,
from the outset he drinks Jax beer from a can
He says, "There's something 'bout this city always gets me
I'm a sentimental man"
Well the heroine plays violin and reads her Elmore Leonard everyday
She's the one that finds the body He's the one that gets away

I was loved once by a woman, she don't love me anymore
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And I won't never know no woman like the one I'd known
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And she don't love me anymore

I was loved once by a woman, she don't love me anymore
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And I won't never know no woman like the one I'd known
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You know she had me singing gospel out in the kitchen on
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And she don't love me anymore

No she don't love me anymore No she don't love me anymore
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