Key: G
Introduction: G
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She was a girl on a wagon train
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Headed west across the plains
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The train got lost in a summer storm
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They couldn't move west and they couldn't go home
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Then she saw him ridin' through the rain
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He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train
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And she looked down and her heart was gone
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The train went west but she stayed on
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In Lonesome Dove
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A farmer's daughter with a gentle hand
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A blooming rose in a bed of sand
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She loved the man who wore a star
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A Texas Ranger known near and far
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So they got married and they had a child
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But times were tough and the west was wild
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So it was no surprise the day she learned
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That her Texas man would not return
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To Lonesome Dove
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Back to back with the Rio Grande
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A Christian woman in the devil's land
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She learned the language and she learned to fight
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But she never learned how to beat the lonely nights
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In Lonesome Dove, Lonesome Dove
She watched her boy grow to a man