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Date: 11/22/98; 8:38:07 PM
From: LEAFGREEN_P@alph.swosu.edu
Subject: bob woodruff

			YOU CAN'T WIN
written by:  Bob Woodruff
performed by:Bob Woodruff on "Dreams and Saturday Nights"

[Intro]
GCGC(Repeated)
  G                    C
1.It doesn't start it just begins
   D                G
  With a gun and a liquor store
                       C
  Like every thief I know I can't win
     D                G
  I just don't know when or how

  I pulled a job in Tennessee
  A little bank with a big score
  Shot a guy who didn't believe me
  He never had a prayer

  C         D              G
C.If I get caught I don't mind
  C            D                    G
  I stole the money nearly lost my mind
  C             D                 Em
  I can't take back the things I did
  C                 D                  G
  You can play the game but you can't win

2.Me and my wife Barbara Jean
  Went on a spree in Nevada
  Man she could drive she could go like the breeze
  She got us out of there

  Headed south to New Orleans
  She couldn't live like an outlaw
  Said goodbye on a tropical beach
  The sun in her pretty hair

Repeat Chorus

3.Prisons are built with stones of law
  Brothels with bricks of religin
  I've been in both and I know that I saw
  God answers a sinner's prayers

  We played a game we couldn't win
  To the end to the utmost
  Took a chance threw caution to the wind
  We simply didn't care

repeat Chorus