Name: Jessie Lee
Duration: P00H03M00S
Description: our harmonies are sweet like maple syrup thats dripped between your grubby fingers..

Jessie Lee

from The Best of Jimmy the Saint & The Sinners by Jimmy the Saint & The Sinners

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I was standing in line to buy a whiskey fine
When a pretty little thing wandered up behind
She said “I really wanna be your friend,
So why don’t you take me just around the bend?”

I said “slow down girl, don’t roll so fast
Y’know you and me, we could have a blast
But you’ve gotta know that if you roll with me
That you’ll never compare to one Jessie Lee”

Coz I’ve seen a lot of girls from around the bend
And none of them could ever send me
To the heights I go to when I see
That ever-lovin’, pretty little Jessie Lee

Well I met a young fella out of Advancetown
He said he wanted me to show him all around
And no sooner did I get him around that bend
Than he said “man, you really are my great friend.”

I said, “cool it son, don’t fly so fast
These bus stop friendships, they never last.”
He looked at me with puppy eyes
And I swear that boy was about to cry

I said “okay buddy, we can buy some rum,
And I don’t doubt we’ll have a lot of fun
But you’ll simply never mean as much to me
As that ever-lovin’, pretty little Jessie Lee

And even when she’s thousands of miles away
She always knows exactly just what to say
To keep this poor boy from going astray
For the chance that he may see her again some day

So if you think you might want to shoot around with me
There’s just one thing you need to plainly see
That no one will ever, ever mean as much to me
As that ever-lovin’, pretty little Jessie Lee

Coz I’ve seen a lot of girls from around the bend
And none of them could ever send me
To the heights I go to when I see
That ever-lovin’, pretty little Jessie Lee

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from The Best of Jimmy the Saint & The Sinners, released July 15, 2011

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