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A Boy Named Sue

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Amajor
90BPM
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ACapo on 1D  
Well my daddy left home when I was three And he didn't leave much to Ma and me
E A Just this old guitar
an empty bottle of booze
Now I doAn't blame him cause he run and hid But the meanest thing that he ever didD  
E A Was before he
he went and named me Sue
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