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Dolly Parton – It Ain't Fair That It Ain't (1971) | Track profile | Dork

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Dolly Parton
Joshua
It Ain't Fair That It Ain't

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It Ain't Fair That It Ain't

Release date: 12th April 1971

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"It Ain't Fair That It Ain't" is a track by Dolly Parton, from the album Joshua, released 12th April 1971. It's filed under Country. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Dolly Parton.

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Dolly Parton

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Lyrics

It Ain't Fair That It Ain't

[Verse 1]

It ain't fair for you to leave me

Cold and crying in the night

It ain't fair to take your body

From my arms and out of sight

[Chorus]

It ain't fair you've gone and left me

Where you kissed me, I still burn

Are you leaving for my loving

This awful hurting in return?

[Verse 2]

It ain't fair for you to leave me

Alone to face the morning light

It ain't fair, you took my body

And then to say that it ain't right

[Chorus]

It ain't fair you've made me your woman

I'm no longer a good girl in your eyes

How come before you said you'd love me?

It ain't fair that it ain't right

[Outro]

It just ain't fair that it ain't right

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Track details

From Joshua

1971

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Album

Release year

1971

1Joshua
3:06
2The Last One to Touch Me
3:03
3Walls of My Mind
2:35
4It Ain't Fair That It Ain't Right
2:19
5J.J. Sneed
2:54
6You Can't Reach Me Anymore
2:39
7Daddy's Moonshine Still
3:31
8Chicken Every Sunday
2:38
9The Fire's Still Burning
2:51
10Letter to Heaven
2:26
—Fire's Still Burning
—It Ain't Fair That It Ain't

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