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When your money's gone |
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Friends have turned you down |
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And you wander 'round |
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Just like a hound |
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(A lonesome houn') |
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Then you stop to say |
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"Let me go away from this old town |
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(This awful town) |
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There's a place I know |
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Folks won't pass me by |
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Dallas, Texas, that's the town |
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I cry |
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(Oh, hear me cry) |
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And I'm going back |
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Going back to stay there 'til I die |
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(Until I die) |
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I've got the Dallas blues |
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And the Main Street heart disease |
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(It's buzzin' 'round) |
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I've got the Dallas blues |
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And the Main Street heart disease |
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(It's buzzin' 'round) |
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Buzzin' 'round my head |
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Like a swarm of little honey bees |
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(Of honey bees) |
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When I got up north |
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Clothes I had to spare |
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Sold 'em all to pay my railroad fare |
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(My railroad fare) |
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Just to come back there |
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Ridin' in a Pullman parlor chair |
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(A parlor chair) |
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Sent a telegram, this is what I said |
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"Baby, bring a cold towel for my head |
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(My achin' head) |
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Got the Dallas blues |
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And your lovin' man is almost dead |
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(Is almost dead) |
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I'm goin' put myself on a Santa Fe and go |
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(I'm goin' to go) |
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I'm goin' to put myself on a Santa Fe and go |
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(I'm goin' to go) |
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To that Texas town |
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Where you never see the ice and snow |
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(The ice and the snow) |