Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore Chords by Tom T. Hall

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[C] I'm humming as I walk this house and do my daily [G] chores.
When I put the broom away, I see the dress that Alice wore.
[C] It's hanging in the closet, sadly sagging without form.
[G] Empty dress there in the closet, held her body soft and warm. _
[G] _ _ Shoes and dress that [Cm] Alice wore. _
_ _ _ [C] It's the dress she wore the night she caught me lying there beside.
Some [G] strange woman, meaning nothing, just some bones and hair and hide.
I [C] could not explain it to her, and I cannot to this day.
[G] Now I stand here staring at the dress she wore to go away.
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And the shoes are red and shiny, and they're modest in the heel.
And the [G] dress a bad investment, and the color could be teal.
She went screaming from the room where I lay blinking in the nude.
With the woman [G] there beside me saying, ain't this woman rude? _ _ _
Shoes and dress that Alice wore.
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_ So I [C] ask the undertaker in a private kind of way,
before you close the casket when our friends have gone away,
if [C] it's not too strange to reason I would make one last request.
Since it [G] all goes in the ground, I'd like to have the shoes and dress. _
_ _ Shoes and dress that [Cm] Alice wore. _
_ _ _ [C] So I'm humming as I walk this house and do my daily chores.
When I [G] put the broom away, I see the dress that Alice wore.
It's hanging in the closet, sadly sagging without form.
[G] Empty dress there in the closet, held her body soft and warm.
_ _ _ Shoes and dress that Alice [Cm] _ wore. _ _ _ _
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