>>>I missed you, but my aim is gett'n better.
>>>I won't take you to a dog fight, 'cus I'm afraid you'll win.
>>>If the phone doesn't ring, you'll know it's me.
>>>It's hard to kiss the lips that chewed my a$$ all day.
>>>She took my ring and give me the finger.
>>>She ran away with my best friend and boy I miss him.
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>>I don't know if any of those are real (it wouldn't surprise me), but I do know this one is for real. On the 45 (before your time?) by Nino Tempo and April Stevens of "Deep Purple", the flip side was a song called I've Been Carrying A Torch For You So Long That I Burned a Great Big Hole In My Heart.
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>Purple prose indeed.
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>I have always thought a good name for a country song would be "I've Got Half a Mind To Stay With You".

Well, Roger Miller did a song ("Half a Mind") with the line: I've got half a mind to leave you, but only half the heart to go.