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A#m C# D#m C# Cm

[Verse 1]
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When I was young I had a friend
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Father said she was make-pretend
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Joanna was her name and life was innocence

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Doctors tried to claw her out
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And pills tried to push her down
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She was part of me, she came back again

[Verse 2]
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But not before long
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When all was said and done
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I knew that it was really her and me

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The boys in the crowd
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They said they’d beat her out
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They’d exorcise this little witch in me

[Chorus]
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By the time that all
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The teachers had arrived
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It was too late
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They bludgeoned her to death
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Outside the gate
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She slipped away into the summer rain
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And never was the same

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Oh Joanna dear
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I thought this song would make you disappear
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And banish you somehow
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Though as I sing it now
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I hear your voice so loud
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So there can be no doubt
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That somehow you crept out

[Outro]
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