I Took Her For A Fool Song Lyrics and Chords by Cal Smith
I Took Her For A Fool
Recorded by Cal Smith
Written by
Randall J. Colemus
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I'm setting in this honky tonk down to my last
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dime
I'll bet you've heard this tale of woe at least a million
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times
I'm the guy that used to own that big house across the
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tracks
But the only thing that I
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own now are the
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cloths upon my
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back
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different girl most every night I thought this was the life
I tried to please them all but that
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just didn't please my
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wife
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kicked myself a million times for treating her so
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bad
I took her for a
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fool so she took
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me for all I
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had
I used to have a big garage two Cadillac's i
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A pretty wife who loved just me but I wasn't satis
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fied
The house the wife the car belong now to another
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man
Cause she caught me with
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another girl and that's
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when it hit the
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fan
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FAQ
Who sang the the song I Took Her For A Fool?
- The song I Took Her For A Fool was sang by Cal Smith.
Who is Cal Smith?
- Calvin Grant Shofner (April 7, 1932 - October 10, 2013), known professionally as Cal Smith, was an American country musician, most famous for his 1974 hits "Country Bumpkin" and "It's Time to Pay the Fiddler".
