New Life in Old Mexico chords by Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I crossed the Mississippi,
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Turned south at San Antone
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A bowie knife, a woolen coat,
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A grip bag on my arm
It's all somebody needs to make
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it through the land
Walk the night, travel light,
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cross the Rio Grande
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Someone strums a mandolin,
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soft gulf breezes blow
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My new life is waiting in old Mexico
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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I was once a married man
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livin' peacefully
Hard to say exactly when the
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devil blinded me
But there was some confusion
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when my sweet
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Wife left this world
Darker times, drunken crimes,
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A dead young working girl
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Left a jailer there in Caroline,
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Watching me from down below
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My new life is waiting in
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old Mexico
Verse 3
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Livin' in the shadows
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Runnin' from my fame
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Blowin' where the wind blows
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Where no one knows my name
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Verse 4
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In the El Vaquero Bar in the
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town of Eagle Pass
Moments from my freedom warm
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whiskey in my glass
Some boracho took me for the man
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who stole his wife
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He went for his forty-four as as
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I reached for my knife
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He never fired a second
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shot he was just too slow
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My new life is waiting in old Mexico
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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I hear of hidden harbors south
of Mazatlan
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Where cool spring mountain waters
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Meet the warm Pacific sun
I pray the miles I've traveled
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and all the sins I bear
Burn away like mornin' fog and
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vanish in the air
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Miles beyond the border now,
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but many miles to go
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My new life is waiting
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in old Mexico
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New Life in Old Mexico
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
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