Brown Paper Bag Song Lyrics and Chords by Tammy Wynette
Brown Paper Bag
Recorded by Tammy Wynette
Written by Larry Gatlin
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She cleans off the table throws the dishes in the
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sink
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gently hangs her apron on the
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floor
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minutes she's back down at the magazine rack
In the
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back corner of the corner grocery
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store
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She reads of movie queens in those photo maga
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zines
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fondles four or five she's gonna
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buy
Now she's
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takin' her life home in a brown paper bag
To
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read about who's
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livin' her
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life
He fires up his pick-up he just got off the grave
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yard
And he
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trudges down the road home to
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another
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life's so dang dead in the house where he's been dyin'
He
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wonders why the heck he even
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bothers
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So he stops off at a water hole and picks up a
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pint
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most perfect peace of mind two bucks can
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buy
Now he's
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takin' his life home in a brown paper bag
In
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stead of just
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takin' his
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life
He's
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sittin' in his undershirt just
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guzzlin' down his gin
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lying on her satin sheets
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lovin' her leading men
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neither one of them can look the
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other in the
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s
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now the two brown paper bags
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just two garbage cans that used to hold their lives
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And now all the riches that they shared have
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turned to rags
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now every day they take their lives home
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In two brown
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paper
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bags
FAQ
Who sang the the song Brown Paper Bag?
- The song Brown Paper Bag was sang by Tammy Wynette.
Who is Tammy Wynette?
- Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh May 5, 1942 - April 6, 1998) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician and was one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers.
Wynette was called the "First Lady of Country Music", and her best-known song, "Stand by Your Man", is one of the best-selling hit singles by a woman in the history of country music. Many of her hits dealt with themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette charted 20 number-one songs on the Billboard Country Chart. Along with Loretta Lynn, Lynn Anderson, and Dolly Parton, she is credited with having defined the role of women in country music during the 1970s.
Wynette's marriage to country music singer George Jones in 1969 created a country music "couple", following the earlier success of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Though they divorced in 1975, the couple recorded a sequence of albums and singles together that hit the charts throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.
