Key: G major•
Verse 1
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Of southeast Texas gulf
There used to ride a brakeman
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D
And a brakeman double tough
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D
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He worked the town of Kilgore
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And Longview nine miles down
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Us travelers called him East Texas Red
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The meanest bully around
Verse 2
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In the rain or snow or sun
You'd always see little
East Texas Red
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D
Sportin' his smooth runnin' gun
the stems and the mains
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And everybody said
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That the toughest dick on that shiny iron
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Was little East Texas Red
Verse 3
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Along towards nine or ten
When a couple of boys
on the hunt of a job
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D
Stood in the blizzardy wind
on the doors
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Of the workin' folks around
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For a piece of meat or a spud or two
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To boil their stew around
Verse 4
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D
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Red come down the cinder dump
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And he waved old number two
He kicked their bucket over a bush
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And he dumped out all of their stew
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One traveler said, "Mr. East Texas Red
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Just one year from tonight."
Verse 5
C
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And swung on the side of a wheel
The boys caught a tanker to Seminole
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And a westward to Amarillo
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They struck them a job of oilfield work
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And they followed the pipeline down
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And it took them lots of places
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'Til that year had rolled around
Verse 6
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They hitched them a Gulf- bound train
They beat their way 'cross
the froze gumbo
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D
To the scrub oak flats again
froze roads
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Where the cottony wagons rolled
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On past the town of Kilgore
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And on towards old Longview
Verse 7
and their overcoats
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They walked into a store
They paid the man for some meat and stuff
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D
To boil their stew once more
to the yards
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'Til they came to the same old spot
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Where East Texas Red just one year ago
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Had dumped their last stew pot
Verse 8
higher and higher
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And a man come down the line
His head ducked low in
the blizzardy wind
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And he waved old number nine
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'Til they come to the same old spot
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D
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There was the same two men again
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Around that same stew pot
Verse 9
and he hollered
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"Please don't pull that trigger on me
I never did get my business fixed"
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But Red never got his say
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A gun wheeled out of an overcoat
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And it laid the old one too
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And Red lay dead as the other two men
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Sat down to eat their stew
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