Key: E major•
Verse 1
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Oh brother let me take my rest
and wicked west
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Until it all dries up and turns to mud
of Oakland town
A Russell city marshall dead
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You know by now they've
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seen your face
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Dead or alive it's a thousand dollar race
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C#m
With dust in your eyes it's hard to see
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Oh brother I come to take you
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home with me
You were breaking ground in Calico
But a miner's life just wouldn't hold
For a gamblers heart will never fold
Yeah so you headed out
to 'Frisco bay
Where the miner's gambled all their pay
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But you're never one to settle down
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You just dealt your hand
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from town to town
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A gamblers heart is bound to roam
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Wherever you hang your hat is
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home
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If I ever leave this broken land
I'll be headed home for Alabama
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Where the honeysuckle smells so sweet
And the moonshine knocks you off your feet
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I dreaming out of my bellows bed
And a feathered pillow 'neath my head
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And I say a prayer for my
brother Jack
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'Cause I know now he ain't coming back
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I know right now it's plain to see
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Oh brother I only want you to be free
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With dust in your eyes it's
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hard to see
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And rust in your skies it's
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hard to breathe
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Oh brother I only want you to be free
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Oh brother I only want
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you to be free
And leave this wild and wicked west
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A B C#m
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