Key: G
Introduction:
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John Roy was boy I knew, since he was three and I was two
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Grew up two little houses down from me
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The only two bad apples on our family tree, kind of ripened and rotted in our puberty
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Two kindred spirits bound by destiny
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Well I was smart but I lacked ambition
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Johnny was wild with no inhibition
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Was about like mixing fire and gasoline and he?d say
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Hey, Romeo lets go down to Mexico chase senoritas drink ourselves silly
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Show them Mexican girls a couple real hillbillies
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Got a pocket full of cash and an old ford truck,
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Fuzzy can hanging from the mirror for luck
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Said don?t you know all those little brown-eyed girls
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3. (see bottom)
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Long around our eighteenth year we found two airplane tickets the hell outta here
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Got scholarships to some small town school in Texas
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We learned to drink sangrias ?till the dawns early light
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Eat eggs ranchero and throw up all night
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And tell those daddys girls we were majorin? in a rodeo
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Ah, but my favorite memory of school that fall
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Was the night John Roy came running down the hall
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Wearin? nothing but cowboy boots and a big sombrero and he was yellin?
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And I said we had a little change in plans like when Paul McCartney got busted in japan
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And I said we got waylaid when we set foot on Mexican soil
(Slow down)
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You see the border guard with a Fu Manchu mustache
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Kind of stumbled on John?s pocket full of American cash
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He said doing a little funny business in Mexico amigo
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But all I could think about was saving my own tail
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When he mentioned ten years in a Mexican jail
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So I pointed at John Roy and said it?s all his now please let me go
I mean it was your idea genius I was just laying in bed when you said
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3. Playboys of the southwestern world
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Ah, we?re still best friends, temporary cellmates
Outro: Beginning riff