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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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getting us in of world of hurt
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Down below the mason dumb ass
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I can't go back to Tennessee
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That Nascar country's not for me
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Verse 2
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Carlos packed his drums
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Ruby standing just outside
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Chain smoking camel straights
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The sky off to the east got grey
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And he rolled off in a cloud of dust
Verse 3
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And the grey colt nickered at the gate,
she said,
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\"You're right it's getting late
Verse 4
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She took down the long lead rope
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And stayed off that slippery slope
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Now aspen trees were turning gold up top
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The talk was buzzing round
Verse 5
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Wasn't he barely half her age
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nowadays
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Verse 6
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By spring she'd had the
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Ruby turned 50 in a sheep camp tent
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Her body still could rock all night
Verse 7
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After one more Coggins test
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Pouring coffee for the county vet
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Verse 9
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Then Carlos on the big bay mare
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Heavier now and longer haired
Verse 10
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And the old vet said one day Rube
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that colt will break an egg in you
Verse 11
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And the storm door didn't catch
Verse 12
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And holding back the flood
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You can't unclench your teeth
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To howl the way you should
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So you curl your lips around
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The taste of tears and the
Interlude 1
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Verse 13
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Carlos took the road gig
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He rode the tour bus
Verse 14
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Managed out a music row,
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Carlos never saw the studio
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Verse 15
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He looks out the window
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And it starts to sleet
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Laying on a friends couch on Nevada street
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Lately he's been staying high
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Sick all winter and they don't know why
or they just won't say
Verse 16
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What thoughts can get out past the wine
Verse 17
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He sees it all behind his eyes
but they come up dry
Verse 18
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Half way in that waking dream
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Carlos lets the land line ring
Interlude 2
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Verse 19
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He'd never guess it was Ruby calling
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A pin in her hip from the grey colt falling
Verse 20
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Holding back the flood
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You can't unclench your teeth
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To howl the way you should
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So you curl your lips around
Outro 1
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