No Man's Land Song Lyrics and Chords by Tanya Tucker
No Man's Land
Recorded by Tanya Tucker
Written by Don Wayne
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Many years
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ago in Brushcreek
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Georgia
Molly Marlo
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was a virgin
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girl
She
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lived a mile from a fool named Barney
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Dawson
Hell bent on getting
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inside Molly's
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world
He caught her after
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church one Sunday
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morning
And took her body
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with his rough hard
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hands
And
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walked off laughing as she lay there
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crying
Since then she's been
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known as No Man's
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Land
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Marlo was No Man's
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Love could
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never grow in No Man's
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Land
The men all
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tried but she denied them
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sighed and wrung their
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hands
But they couldn't go walking
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in No Man's
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Molly grew
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into a luscious
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beauty
Each man's head would
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turn as she walked
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by
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their hot eyes watched her body
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moving
They'd swallow hard and
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shake their heads and
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sigh
Molly went to
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school and studied
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nursing
Now you might laugh but
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it's an honest
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fact
The
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first year that she nursed at Milliards
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Six men pretended
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they had heart
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attacks
Repeat #3
Years later Barney
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Dawson lay in
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prison
In feverish pain that
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suffering shell of a
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man
He was
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glad to see the nurse from Milliards
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Till he saw the burning
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eyes of No Man's
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Land
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Marlo was No Man's
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Love could
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never grow in No Man's
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Barney
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cried but she denied him
And he
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prayed and wrung his
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hands
Now his soul's walking
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through No Man's
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Land
FAQ
Who sang the the song No Man's Land?
- The song No Man's Land 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.
