Clear Isabel chords by
Aaron Watson
Aaron Watson

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Key: C# minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Isabel and her brown skin shined like
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a sapphire in the summer sun
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The pride and joy of a Mexican
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lawman who lived by the gun
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He got cross ways with the cartel
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they shot down his only son Jose
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So in fear of his daughter's life he packed
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their bags and late one night she heard him say
Verse 2
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I hear the grass is greener just beyond
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that Laredo border line
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They say freedom is much sweeter than
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sweet blood red sangria wine
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South Texas looks like heaven when
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you're down here in this living hell
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So come on let's cross that Rio,
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the coast is clear Isabel
The coast is clear Isabel
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Verse 3
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They came across our homestead tired and hungry,
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cold and moving slow
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We had fence to build a warm place
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to stay and they had nowhere to go
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So I worked cattle with her father we were
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stretching wire and driving post all day
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While Isabel worked with my mother and late at night
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I held her tight and she'd take my breath away
Verse 4
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I hear the grass is greener just beyond
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that Laredo border line
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They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet
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blood red sangria wine
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South Texas looks like heaven when
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you're down here in this living hell
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So come on let's cross that Rio,
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the coast is clear Isabel
The coast is clear Isa
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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The sheriff came across her father they treated
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him like an outlaw on the run
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And Isabel now wears my diamond and
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that little boy she holds is my son
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We got a green card for her father Mariano
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but it came two years too late
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We got word that he'd been gunned down
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in a border town shot in the back
The last thing they heard him say
Verse 6
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I hear the grass is greener just beyond
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that Laredo border line
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And they say that freedom is much sweeter
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than sweet blood red sangria wine
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South Texas looks like heaven when
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you're down here in this living hell
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So come on let's cross that Rio,
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the coast is clear Isabel
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The coast is clear Isabel
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The coast is clear Isa bel
Clear Isabel
Clear Isabel

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