Well, she was standing by the highway
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In her boots and silver spurs
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Gonna hitchhike to the yellow moon
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When a Cadillac stopped for her
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And she said, "Hey, nice to meet you, are you goin' my way?"
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Yeah, that's when it happened
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The world caught fire that day
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And she went down swingin'
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Yeah, she went down swingin'
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Well, she was over twenty-one
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In trouble with the law
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And it didn't faze her none
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She called her mother-in-law
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And said I need a little money
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I knew I could count on you
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After that night in Vegas
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And the hell that we went through
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We went down swingin'
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Like Benny Goodman
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Yeah, we went down swingin'
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Moonlight on the interstate
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She was 'cross the Georgia line
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Looked out the window feeling great
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Yeah, it had to come in time
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And she said I'm never goin' back
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She said at last I'm free
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I wish ma could see me now, she'd be so proud of me
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She went down swingin'
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Like Glenn Miller
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Yeah, she went down swingin'
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Like Tommy Dorsey
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Yeah, she went down swingin'
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Like Sammy Davis
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She went down swingin'
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Like Sonny Liston
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Swingin'
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| Tom Petty |
