Man From Bowling Green Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
Man From Bowling Green
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by Troy Seals and Max D. Barnes
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She road a slow train to the city she was
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young and she was pretty
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A full grown mountain woman that had blossomed in the
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spring
She took a
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job at waiting tables at the
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House of Seven Gables
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That's where she met
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the man from Bowling
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Green
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He was somewhat older with
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hair down on his shoulders
And he
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knew how to touch a
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lady and he must have touched her
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dreams
Sung her
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songs and called her baby
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till that country girl went
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crazy
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guitar picking
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man from Bowling
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Well he got what he was after and
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after that he left her
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He packed up his guitar caught a westbound
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train
It was
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just another city where the
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country girls were pretty
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Easy picking for the
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man from Bowling
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Now her life is twisted like some
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West Virginia back-road
And the
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House of Seven
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Gables has got a brand new
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queen
To any
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one that is buying she'l
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l drink to keep fro
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crying
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man from Bowling
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Yes she
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loved that guitar
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man from Bowling
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Green
FAQ
Who sang the the song Man From Bowling Green?
- The song Man From Bowling Green was sang by Johnny Paycheck.
Who is Johnny Paycheck?
- Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle May 31, 1938 - February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 5).
