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Streets Of Laredo
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Hank Williams Jr.
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As I walked out in the streets of Laredo as I walked out in Laredo one day
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I spied a young cowboy wrapped up in white linen
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Wrapped up in white linen as cold as the clay
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I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy
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These words he did say as a police stepped by
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Come side down beside me and hear my sad story
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I'm shot in the chest and I know I must die
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It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing
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It was once in the saddle I used to go gay
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First to the drum house and then to the courthouse
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Got shot in the chest and I'm dying today
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Oh beat the drum slowly play the fife lowly play the dead march as you carry me along
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Take me to the green valley there lay the sod o'er me
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For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong
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Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin get six pretty maidens to bear up my pall
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Put bunches of roses all over my coffin but roses to deaden the sod as they fall
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Then swing your ropes slowly and raddle your spurs lowly
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And give a wild yell as you carry me along
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And in the grave throw me and rove the sod o'er me
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For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong
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Go bring me some water a cup of cold water
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To cool my parched lips the cowboy then said
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Before I return his soul had departed and gone to the roundup the cowpoke was dead
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We beat the drum slowly we play the fife lowly we bitterly weep as we carry him along
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We take him to the green valley there lay the sod o'er him
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Just the young cowboy that surely done wrong
Marty Robbins - The Streets Of Laredo
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