Smokie - Mexican Girl 1978

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~ "Ooh, Dad-dy I love- you,youknow-- And I

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think - it's day- and

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fine-- well, Mex-- i m ... e~ with

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looked al - rigli"t"- And she moaned,- "Ooh,Dad- dy, move 0 - ver, schooled in France- Ooh la lov in' She need -ea no teach - in!

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~ Oh, Ba-by , youknow-what I like-- and I think- it's the Oh, man, I can say- in-ter-na--tion-al ways- I be -

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~ Mex- i - can Girl,-- don'tleaveme a-lone,-- I got a heart-

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--as big as a stone-- And I need-- you, be-lieve- me, to be-

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