Greener Than The Grass We Laid On Song Lyrics and Chords
Greener Than The Grass We Laid On Song Lyrics and Chords by Tanya Tucker
Greener Than The Grass We Laid On
Recorded by Tanya Tucker
Written by David Alan Coe
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He painted quite a
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picture for the
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girls in my home
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town
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I was no
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exception to the
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rule
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Singing all them
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songs about the
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places that he'
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been
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Made a body feel just like a
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fool
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My pride was like a
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paper bag that
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once had held the
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wine
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Thrown with no
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caution to the
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wind
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He left me like the
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empty bottle
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lying on the
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ground
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Swearing he would pick me up
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again
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I was greener
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than the grass we
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laid
on
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Underneath that Alabama
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sun
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guess I should have
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known
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highway was his
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home
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do
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He said that I was
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prettier than
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Paris in the
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rain
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Lord he filled me
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full of gypsy
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lies
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come back to
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fetch me in the
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spring
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Too ashamed to look me in the
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eye
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I felt about as
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simple as the
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cotton dress I'd
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torn
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Sneaking in the
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house at 3 a.
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Momma liked to
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question me to
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death and I was
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sure
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Her intuition told her where I'd
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been
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Greener Than The Grass We Laid On?
- The song Greener Than The Grass We Laid On was sang by Tanya Tucker.
Who is Tanya Tucker?
- Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits.
She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's Your Mama's Name?" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down", 1975's "Lizzie and the Rainman", 1988's "Strong Enough to Bend", and 1992's "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane". Tucker's 2019 album While I'm Livin' won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and "Bring My Flowers Now" from that same album won Tucker a shared songwriting Grammy for Best Country Song.