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[Refrain]<\/span><\/p>\n

Dm F C Dm<\/span>
\nJolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene<\/span>
\nC Dm<\/span>
\nI’m beggin’ of you please don’t take my man<\/span>
\nDm F C Dm<\/span>
\nJolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene<\/span>
\nC Dm<\/span>
\nPlease don’t take him just because you can<\/span><\/p>\n

Dm F<\/span>
\n[Verse] Your beauty is beyond compare\u2028 C Dm<\/span>
\nWith flaming locks of auburn hair\u2028 C Dm<\/span>
\nWith ivory skin and eyes of emerald green\u2028Your smile is like a breath of spring\u2028Your voice is soft like summer rain\u2028And I cannot compete with you \u2013 Jolene<\/span><\/p>\n

He talks about you in his sleep\u2028And there’s nothing I can do to keep\u2028From crying when he calls your name – Jolene<\/span>
\nAnd I can easily understand\u2028How you could easily take my man\u2028But you don’t know what he means to me – Jolene<\/span><\/p>\n

Dm F C Dm<\/span>
\nJolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene<\/span>
\nC Dm<\/span>
\nI’m beggin’ of you please don’t take my man<\/span>
\nJolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene\u2028Please don’t take him just because you can<\/span><\/p>\n

You could have your choice of men\u2028But I could never love again\u2028He’s the only one for me – Jolene<\/span>
\nI had to have this talk with you\u2028My happiness depends on you\u2028And whatever you decide to do – Jolene<\/span><\/p>\n

Dm F C Dm<\/span>
\nJolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene<\/span>
\nC Dm<\/span>
\nI’m beggin’ of you please don’t take my man<\/span>
\nJolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene\u2028Please don’t take him even though you can\u2028<\/span>
\nJolene, Jolene<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Refrain] Dm F C Dm Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene C Dm I’m beggin’ of you please don’t take my man Dm F C Dm Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene C Dm Please don’t take him just because you can Dm F [Verse] Your beauty is beyond compare\u2028 C Dm With flaming … CLICK TO VIEW SONGJolene<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}