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Just Across the Rio Grande
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Reba McEntire
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(Don Cook, Chick Rains)
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The lights of Laredo dance on the water
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and shine in a young man's eyes.
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Who stand on the border and dreams of paradise.
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He's heard crazy stories of how people live over in the promised land.
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He heard they eat three meals a day, just across the Rio Grande.
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He's got a wife named Maria, and a baby
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named Rose, and another one to feed on the way.
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Two willing hands, that couldn't find work today.
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He stares at the river and curses the future,
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that he can't understand.
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He knows the child would have a chance, just
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across the Rio Grande.
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It's only a river,
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that's not so deep or wide.
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A boy can throw a stone across and
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reach the other side. It's just some
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muddy water, cutting through the land.
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But a man can make a dream come true
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just across the Rio Grande.
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The lights of Laredo dance on the water and
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shine in a young man's eyes. Who stand on the
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border and dreams of paradise.
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He's heard crazy stories of how good life is
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over in the promised land, and
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sometimes it seems like God must live just
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across the Rio Grande.
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