Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
And quit my crowd that was so gay
And leave the girl who
promised me her hand
And head down south to the Rio Grande
It was in the spring of fifty -three
when A .J. Stinson hired me.
He said, young fellow,
I want you to go and drive this
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herd down to Mexico.
Oh, it was a long and a toilsome go
as we rode on to Mexico
With laughter, light, and cowboy song,
To Mexico as we rode along.
When I arrived in that distant land,
I wanted to see my love,
but I could not stand.
So I wrote a letter, a letter to my dear
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But not a word from
her could I hear
When I returned to my native land
They said she'd married a richer man
They said she'd married a richer life,
Let's curse your gold and your silver,
too,
Confound the girls who won't prove true.
I'll head out west where the bullets fly,
and stay on the train till the day I die.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# G#m B
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