Tonalité : G major
Verse 1
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Down in the scrub oak
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timbers of the southeast
Texas
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Gulf
There used to ride a brakeman,
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and a brakeman double tough
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He worked the town of
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Kilgore
And
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Longview nine miles down
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And us travelers called him
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East
Texas
Red
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The meanest bull around
If you rode by night, by broad daylight
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In the wind and the snow and sun
You'd always see
Little
East
Texas
Red
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Sportin' his smooth runnin' gun
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Well the town got switched down
the stems and the mains
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And everybody said
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That the meanest man on the shiny irons
Was
Little
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East
Texas
Red
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It was early in the mornin' and along
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George 9 or 10
When a couple of boys on
the hunt of a jowl
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Stood in the blizzardy wind
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Hungry and cold they knocked on the doors
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Of the workin' folks around
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For a piece of meat or a spud or two
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To boil their stew around
Red come down the cinder dung
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And he flagged down number two
He kicked their bucket over a bush
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And dumped out all of their stew
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One traveler said,
Mr.
East
Texas
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Red, you better get your business fixed right,
because
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you're going to ride your little black
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train just one year from tonight.
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Well
Red just laughed as he climbed the bank,
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swung on the side of a wheeler, the boy was
took on a tanker to
Seminole
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And westward to
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Amarillo
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They struck them a job of ball field work
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And they followed the pipeline down
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And it took them lots of places
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Till one year had rolled around
On one cold and wintry day,
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they hooked them a
Gulf -bound train
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They shivered and they shook
with dough in their clothes
To
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Old
Kelgore again
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Over hills of sand and hard -froze roads
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where the cotton wagons rode
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Out past the town of
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Kelgore and on to
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O 'Longview
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Where their warm suits of clothes
and their overcoats
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They'll walk into a store
They'll pay the man for
some meat and stuff
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They'll boil their stew once more
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They walked the tides back to the yard
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And they came to the same old spot
Where
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East
Texas
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Red just one year ago
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Had dumped their last steel pot
The smoke from their fire
went higher and higher
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And a man come down the line
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He ducked his head in the blizzardy
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wind and waved old number nine
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He walked off down the cinder dump
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and he'd come to the same old spot
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And there was the same two men
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again around that same stew pot
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Red went to his knees and he hollered,
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Please don't pull that trigger on me.
I never did get my business fixed,
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Red never got his say.
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A gun wheeled out of an overcoat
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And it laid the old one to
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Red lay dead.
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While the other two men sat
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down to eat their stew
Outro 1
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