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Artist: Dolly Parton
Canonical path: /dolly-parton/tender-lie
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Tender Lie
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Tender Lie
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As you walk away
As we say good-bye
What I wouldn't give
For a tender lie
Say you'll never stop loving me
Just as if it were true
How much more damage now honestly
Could one tender lie do?
When we fall so far
Are we wrong to try?
To keep out the truth
With a tender lie
Say you're gonna come back to me
And I'll believe that it's true
How much more damage now honestly
Could one tender lie do?
Say you're gonna come back to me
And I'll believe that it's true
How much more damage now honestly
Could one tender lie do?
How much more damage now honestly
Could one tender lie do?
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Dolly Parton performs "Tender Lie", and this lyric page sits inside the Dolly Parton catalog on LyroVerse.
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