Artist: Garth Brooks
Song: In Lonessome Dove
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She|was a girl on a wagon train|[/tab]
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headed west a-cross the plains.|[/tab]
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The | train got lost in a summer storm.|[/tab]
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They | coudln t move west and they couldn t go|[/tab]
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home. Then she | saw him ridin through the rain.|[/tab]
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He took | charge of the wagons and he saved the train.|[/tab]
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And | she looked down and her heart was gone.|[/tab]
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The | train went west but she stayed | on in Lonesome Dove.|[/tab]
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A farmer s daughter with a gentle hand,
A blooming rose in a bed of sand;
She loved the man who wore a star,
A Texas Ranger known near and far.
So they got married and they had a child.
But times were tough and West was wild.
So it was no surprise the day she learned
That her Texas man would not return
To Lonesome Dove. CHORUS
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She watched her boy grow to a man.
He had an angel s heart and the devil s hand.
He wore his star for all to see.
He was a Texas lawman legacy.
Then one day word blew into twon.
It seemed the men that shot his father down
Had robbed a bank in Cherico.
Tho only thing tween them and Mexico
Was Lonesome Dove. (to verse 4)
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The shadows stretched across the land
As the shots rang out down the Rio Grande.
And when the smoke had finally cleared the street,
The men lay at the ranger s feet.
But legend tells to this very day
That shots were comin from an alleyway.
"Though no one knows who held the gun,
There ain t no doubt if you ask someone
In Lonesome Dove. CHORUS
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Back to back with the Rio Grande, a | Christian woman in the devil s land.[/tab]
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She | learned the language and she learned to fight, but she|[/tab]
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never learned how the beat the | lonely nights| in | Lonesome[/tab]
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Dove,| | Lonesome Dove.[/tab]