Jayton And Jill

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Jayton had a job for seven bucks an hour

At the fillin' station by the water tower
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Just checkin' oil and fixin' flats
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The kind of kid most folks just look past

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Jill was the local preacher's kid gone wild

Most the time her daddy couldn't stand his own child
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He'd quote the scripture with an angry shout
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And list her all the reasons she would never turn out

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She was drunk one night on the fourth of July
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Parked in a pasture with an out-of-town guy
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He got mad when she said no
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And he tore her Sunday dress
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She was wanderin' alone on a county road
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When the lights came over the hill
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That was the moment when Jayton met Jill

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He said hey, do you need a ride home

She said go away, leave me alone
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But he noticed the bruise and the frightened tears
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Said there ain't no way in Hell I'm leavin' you out here

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It was rainin' a little and fixin' to storm

And his mustang jacket looked dry and warm
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So she let him wrap it 'round her and she climbed inside
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Sayin' OK I guess thanks for the ride

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At an all-night diner they waited out the storm
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Ended up talking right up 'til dawn
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By the time he dropped her off safe at home
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Neither one felt so alone
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Two lost souls found a connection
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that's blessin' both of them still
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On that night when Jayton met Jill

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And what Jayton never told her about that night
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Is how he'd taken his dad's old 45
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He'd been drivin' 'round thinkin' how no one would miss him
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If he just ended it all
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He couldn't see past his own pain
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'Til he saw a pretty girl walkin' in the rain
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Thank God he made it over that hill
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That was the moment when Jayton met Jill