Key: E major
Verse 1
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to the southeast Texas Gulf,
there used to ride a brakeman,
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and Longview
twelve miles down.
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And the travelers all said that Little East Texas Red,
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he was the meanest bull around
If you rode by night or
the broad daylight,
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in the wintry wind or the sun
You would always see
Little East Texas Red,
the stems and manes
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And everybody said that the
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meanest bull on them shiny irons
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it was along towards nine or ten
A couple of boys on the hunt of a job,
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For a piece of meat and a
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just to boil a stew around
Well East Texas Red come down
the line
a bush
Little East Texas Red,
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you better get your business straight
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just one year from today
Well Red, he laughed and
he climbed the bank
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and he swung on the side of a wheeler
And the boys caught a
tanker to Salmonell,
oil field work
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It took them lots of places
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before that year had rolled around
Then on a cold and a windy morn
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they caught them a gulf -bound train
They shivered and shook with a dough
in their clothes
and their overcoats
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they walked into a store
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just to boil the stew once more
The ties they tracked down
that cinder dump
just one year ago
went higher and higher
in that wintry wind
the jungle yards
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and he came to the same old spot
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And there was the same two men again
overcoat
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And it played that 0 -1 -2.
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Sat down to eat their stew. you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G A
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