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Well, life's been kind of trippy down here in Mississippi
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Since Cassie O'Grady disappeared
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And me and my Bob Shaver been in all the newspapers
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Every day for nigh on a year
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They say we got tangled in a love triangle
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A fatal game of truth or dare
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But the truth remains a mystery and now it's ancient history
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It's a Choctaw County affair A D
It's just a Choctaw County affair
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Well, people talkin' 'bout it everywhere
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Well, Cassie O'Grady was no Southern lady
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Despite all the media hype
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They all loved to make her out like a sweet little devout
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All-American cheerleader type
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But her mind was cattywampus, she was greedy, she was pompous
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Strutting 'round with her nose in the air
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She was a cold gold-digger tickling a hand trigger
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It's a Choctaw County affair A D
It's just a Choctaw County affair
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And now they say she's lying dead somewhere
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Well, I do not deny I wished Cassie would die
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When she threatened us with blackmail
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She said she had some information that would wreck my reputation
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And land Bobby back in jail
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Now it's best to remember Bobby Shaver's got a temper
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Like a buck-shot grizzly bear
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But there's no body, there's no witness, so y'all go mind your business
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It's a Choctaw County affair A D
It's just a Choctaw County affair
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Oh, you mess with Bobby and you better beware
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Yeah yeah-yeah, hey, yeah
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Well, the press went wild on the day of the trial
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When they put us on the witness stand
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They thought we'd turn on each other, but soon they all discovered
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We were live-or-die, hand in hand
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And that fancy D.A. from down Jackson way
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Said he'd see us in the electric chair, ha
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But the foreman of the jury told me "honey, don't you worry"
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It's a Choctaw county affair, yeah
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Yeah, it's just a Choctaw County affair
(Choctaw County affair), yeahF A D
How would you know cause you weren't there
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It's just a Choctaw County affair
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Mmm, yeah, yeah
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