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Magnolia Mountain - Shotgun Divorce

from Music and Lyrics: 2009​-​2015 by Mark Utley

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Originally appeared on Magnolia Mountain's "Town and Country" album, released 2012.

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SHOTGUN DIVORCE (Mark Utley - Sleep Cat Music/BMI)

I don't know why I don't just go home and get my gun
Find your drunk ass and blow you away
'Cause you lie and you cheat and I cry myself to sleep
While I think of the words the preachers say
'Cause "till death do us part" has come today

Here you come again, piss, vinegar, and gin
Askin' me where the hell have I been
And you bitch and you moan and that's why I'm never home
Girl, our love's at the end of the line
And a shotgun divorce would suit me fine

I don't even know you, baby
I don't know if I ever did at all
But if you wanna cross me, darlin'
You're headed for a fall

You're gonna drive me crazy, baby
Everything you do just brings me down
I either need to leave you, darlin'
Or put you in the ground

For richer, for poorer, for better or for worse
To keep you in sickness and health
I believed all those things when we first put on the rings
But forever's a hell of a long time
And a shotgun divorce would suit me fine
Oh, I hate you much more than words can say
And "till death do us part" has come today

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from Music and Lyrics: 2009​-​2015, released April 2, 2015
Mark Utley - vocals, electric guitar
Lydia Loveless - vocals
Melissa English - harmony vocals
Renee Frye - harmony vocals
Jeff Vanover - electric guitar
David Rhodes Brown - lap steel
Kathy Woods - fiddle
Bob Donisi - upright bass
Todd Drake - drums

Lydia Loveless appears courtesy of Bloodshot Records

Track produced by John Curley at Ultrasuede Studio, Cincinnati, Ohio

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Mark Utley Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati-based singer/songwriter Mark Utley is the driving force behind the acclaimed roots-rock/Americana band Magnolia Mountain, the honky-tonk Country outfit Bulletville, and the two "Music for the Mountains" fundraising concerts and compilation albums. ... more

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