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Artist: Tampa Red
Canonical path: /tampa-red/dead-cats-on-the-line
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Dead Cats On The Line
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Dead Cats On The Line
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You Chicago women run hand in hand
You run around with one another's man
[chorus:] There's a dead cat on the line
There's a dead cat on the line
I ain't lyin', you're the cheatin' kind
There's a dead cat on the line
You come home at night talkin' out your head
You have to take a bath before you go to bed
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You're in such a sniffer gettin' mighty strung
When you shake hands you got to hold it so long
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She as standin' in church with her own man
I saw you when you tickled her in her hand
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You're brownskin, your husband ain't fair
Your children all yellin' got curly hair
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Early this mornin' 'bout half past four
I seen Bill Johnson comin' out your door
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There's one thing I can't understand
You broke up your home and quit your reg'lar man
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