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Artist: Dierks Bentley
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What Was I Thinking
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What Was I Thinking
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Becky Was a Beauty From South Alabama
Her Daddy Had a Hard Lock and Nine Pound Hammer
Think He Even Did a Little Time in the Slammer
What Was I Thinking?
She Snuck Out One Night and Met Me By the Front Gate
Her Daddy Came Out Waving That Twelve Gage
We Tore Out the Drive, He Peppered My Tailgate
What Was I Thinking?
Oh I Knew There'd Be Hell to Pay,
But That Crossed My Mind a Little Too Late!
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Cuz' I Was Thinking 'bout a Little White Tank Top Sitting Right There in the Middle By Me
I Was Thinking About a Long Kiss Man Just Gotta Get Goin' With a Night Like Me
Well I Know What I Was Feeling But What Was I Thinking?
But What Was I Thinking?
What Was I Thinking?
By the County Line the Cops Were Nipping On Our Heels
Pulled Off the Road Kicked It to 4 Wheel
Shut Off the Lights, Tore Through a Corn Field
What Was I Thinking?
Out the Other Side She Was Hollerin' "faster!"
Took the Third Road Had the Radio Blastin'
Hit the Honky Tonk For a Little Close Dancin'
What Was I Thinking?
Oh I Knew There'd Be Hell to Pay,
But That Crossed My Mind a Little Too Late!
Chorus
When a Mountain of a Man With a "born to Kill" Tattoo
Tried to Cut in I Knocked Out His Front Tooth
Ran Outside Hood Sliding Like Bullduke
What Was I Thinking?
I Finally Got Her Home Half Past Too Late
Her Daddy's in a Lawn Chair Sittin' in the Driveway
Put It in Park As He Started My Way,
What Was I Thinking?
Oh What Was I Thinking?
Oh What Was I Thinking?
And She Gave a Come and Get Me Grin,
And Like a Bullet We Were Gone Again!
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What Was I Thinking?
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