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Artist: Vic Chesnutt
Canonical path: /vic-chesnutt/betty-lonely
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Betty Lonely
Read Betty Lonely lyrics by Vic Chesnutt on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Betty Lonely
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Betty lonely
Lives in a duplex of stucco
On the north bank of a brackish river
Her ears omit the noise from a nearby airstrip
Her mind floats beyond the snapper boats
Betty lonely
Her eyes are roughly staring
At a point through her sliding glass door
Her heart lives over a drawbridge
Her brain is wet like a thrownet
Betty lonely
She will always think in spanish
Though i know
Her spanish black hair will start to fade
She sunk her past
Out in the surrounding salt flats
Her maidenhood was lost
Beneath the spanish moss
Betty lonely
Just talks to her grandbaby
Everybody else she blots them out
But her words stick
Like a flounder gig
Her dry laugh is like a gaff
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Vic Chesnutt performs "Betty Lonely", and this lyric page sits inside the Vic Chesnutt catalog on LyroVerse.
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