Key: D
Introduction:
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Rex Allen
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Intro = Tom Tom Beats x 4 bars
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When I Was Just A Little Boy I've Liked To Roam The Hills
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I'd Shout And Yell And Holler Like Them I Wore Moccasins On My Feet
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And I'd Make Believe I Was Under A Teepee Every Time I Went To Sleep
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My Hair Was Jet Black And I Was Twenty One
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But The Paleface Maidens Didn't Thrill Me None
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Around My Cochise County Home Town
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One Day I Went To The Reservation And There By A Shallow Creek
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Was A Beautiful Indian A'fetchin' Water And I Just Had To Speak
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She Smiled At Me Then Quickly Left But The Next Day She Re-turned
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And It Wasn't Very Long Till I Told Her How The Love In My Heart Burned
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I Told My Daddy I'd Found A Girl Who Meant The World To Me
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And To-morrow I'd Ask The Indian Chief For The Hand Of Nova Lee
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Dad's Trembling Lips Spoke Softly As He Told Me Of My Life
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It Was Then He Said I Could Never Take This Maiden For My Wife
Next verse is spoken with the chords in the back round
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Son The White Man And Indian Were Fighting When You Were Born
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And A Brave Called Yellow Sun Scalped My Little Boy
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So I Stole You To Get Even For What He'd Done
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Though You're A Full Blooded Indian Son
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I Love You As Much As My Own Little Feller That's Dead
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And Son Nova Lee Is Your Sister And That's Why I've Always Said....
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