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LEAVE, LUANNE
from 35mm: A Musical Exhibition
Music and Lyrics by
RYAN SCOTT OLIVER

Southern Gothic Ghost Story (q =100)


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anne's fat lip is dry- ing. The Bas-tard's ba-con fry- ing, The shi - ner 'round her eye's gone bust and

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arm's done broke, hung limp like yolk, And soft - ly she's re - peat-ing,

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Leave, Lu - anne. Why don't you march out that door? Sou-thern wo-man, he ain't no good to you.

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Leave, Lu - anne. Lou - i - si - a - na wants war, But it's

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you dy - ing on her ru - by plains; and yet, Lo - yal Lu-anne re -

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since he got him laid off, His sa-ni-ty just made off. No, he was ne-ver nice, but now he's

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cru - el. He rapes her, and he beats her. She don't fess how he treats her, 'Cause a

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Bi-ble verse says it won't get worse, And she won't be a fool. You won't nev - er

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Leave Lu - anne, 'Cause ifyou walk out that door, His truckwill be gun-nin' for you. No, you won't

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Leave Lu - anne, Or he'll give you what-for. Y' got heart where you should have had brains,

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Some - one's howl - ing Screams like sigh - ing with bat - tered breath.

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death. But

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months of such con - di - tions Turn lay - men to lo - gi-cians; And to -

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night the Bas - tard's sleep - ing like a log.
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Creeps t'ward his roped - up lab re - trie- ver... And she

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cuts the rope And hope on hope, She starts to shout, "Your dog's got out!" She's

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got her chance, with no back-glance, She runs out to the bog, Scream-ing, scream-ing,

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Leave Lu - anne, Yougot a life left to live In a house hang-in'offtheGol-den Coast.

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Leave, Lu - anne! You won't for- get nor for-give, And she don't feel the stings and rips and scrapes

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in thisswampof lee - ches,Go as the prea - cherprea - ches,as a light in thenight.

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hair, And strick - en, stare at the Bas - tard Who beat you

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Bas - tard lies in bed now, Half - sad his wife is dead now.

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They say she drowned her-self in the swamp in wild de - spair.
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no one's on his shoul-der, But his mat - tress don't feel cold - er. In fact it's

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win - dow cracks a sli - ver... And a - ery fog From the mi - ry bog Pours

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death. Lu - anne, she cries her mis - 'ra-ble knell So that Bas-tards will ne - ver sleep a-gain.
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