Tonalidad: Eb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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we were so much in love
She was all I thought of
But she met someone
who said, 'I love you, hon'
E
It was too late
Verse 2
D
He left her the cradle
The shame and the blame
A
A child with no name
Verse 3
D
In the spring we were gonna be
married (gonna be married!)
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G
She was my world everything in my life
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But she ran and hid from the
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wrong that she'd done
B
In a dark back street slum
Verse 4
Em
Back street!
Verse 5
Her own folks disowned her
Verse 6
Her friends all scorned her
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G
Back street! Back street girl!
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Lying scared and alone
Verse 7
Em
Back street!
Verse 8
she met all the wrong kind
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the ghetto's poisoned her young
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mind.
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E
B
F#m
Verse 9
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Eighteen years old
And the room gotten cold
She sings lullabies
As a small baby cries
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Scorned and alone
Verse 10
D
She missed her friends
and her mom and her dad
A
The good home she had
G
(The good home she had!)
Verse 11
D
She had to fight to survive
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(fight to survive!)
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Give up her pride to keep her baby alive
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So she sold her love to
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those who would call
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Up the stairs down the hall
Verse 12
Em
Back street!
She felt the good in her dying
Verse 13
Verse 14
She grew bitter from crying
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G
Back street! Back street girl!
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Lying scared and alone
Verse 15
Em
Back street!
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Ya, 'n what it did to her (?)
Verse 16
D
Back street! She lived
like a rat in a sew
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er
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Verse 17
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G
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A knock in the night
no one in sight
There at my feet
in the snow cold and deep cried
E
Her small baby son
Verse 18
D
tear stained the note
that she left on my door
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G
'Love, please make him yours.'
D
somewhere she walks
Verse 19
the night
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D
wrapped in dreams now never to be
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D
yesterday we held the
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world in our hands
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world apart now we stand
Verse 20
Em
Back street!
Verse 21
it was dawn when they found her
Verse 22
I place some flowers around her
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G
Back street! Back street girl!
D
I never felt so alone
Verse 23
Em
Back street!
Verse 24
As I stand here above her
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I know deep inside I still love
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her
Em
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B
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Verse 25
E
Em
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Oh I think of those good times
(Back street livin aint easy!)
Em
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When we laughed in the sunshine
(Back street livin aint easy!)
E
Em
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All those plans that we made then
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(Back street livin aint easy!)
Em
G
A
Life was so good then... (Back street
livin aint easy!)
Verse 26
She will forever be deep in the
Verse 27
heart and the soul of me
Em
Back street!
If I'd only forgave her
Verse 28
Verse 29
My love could have saved her
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G
Back street! Back street girl!
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Em
She was scared and alone
Verse 30
Em
D
So hard living on the backstreet!
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Back street livin aint easy!
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Back street girl! Oo
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h!
Verse 31
Em
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(background singers
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denoted by!)
Outro 1
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