Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I met you in the saddle
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Rode you in the dust
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Held your hand to the heavens
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Pulled your heart to the earth
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There was something that
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Blinded me more than the mist
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And the breath of the cottonwood
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Buds lighter yet
Verse 2
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And you rode the maypole
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of dance hall legs
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And galloped to another's embrace
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And I bit the flowers from
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your wrist corsage
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You waltzed too slowly
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Too slowly you waltzed
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With that girl from Widow's
Grove
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Verse 3
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Oh I'd follow you to the
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river
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That washes out to the sea
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Through the wind through
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The rain of a cold dark night
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That's where I'll be
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Near the breath of a swallow
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The petals dropped as you fell
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And you grabbed me then shyly
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Held me against the stone cold well
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In your hand was a glass
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You held the ice against the night
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And it dripped and it sparkled
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And I laughed a wish
Verse 5
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Before it all slipped down
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The dark tunneled well
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I heard it melt quietly
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And I looked at you
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Bent to the earth with
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Just one pleading wish
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Your skirts brushed to
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The furious pounding
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Verse 6
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I'd fol low you to the river
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That washes out to the sea
Through the wind through
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The rain of a cold dark night
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That's where I'll be
Interlude 2
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I hid in the
Verse 7
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elm and raised the bough
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That hung even with your neck
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And I chased you and drowned you
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There deep in the well
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And when your mouth was full and wet
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I swallowed all your reckless fate
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And with your last breath
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You moaned too drunk to wake
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Verse 8
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I'd fol low you to the river
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That washes out to the sea
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Through the wind through
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The rain of a cold dark night
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That's where I'll be
Outro 1
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