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My kin come to Texas from Tennessee
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With Davy Crockett a long time ago
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I guess it's pretty lucky for me
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They didn't all go to the Alamo
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They fought to make Texas free
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From the armies of Old Mexico
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They must have thought it was something to be
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In a land where a family could grow
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So they took it away they took it away again
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I wonder what those brave women and men
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Would do if they came back around
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What would they say
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About the way everything has been
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I don't think they were trying to win
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A place to put poison in the ground
verse 2
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Now I live on an Oklahoma hill
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It ain't Texas but it used to be
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Back before Jackson signed a deal
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To make it Indian Territory
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In the winter that was freezin' cold
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They marched the Cherokee
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In the land rush the settlers stole
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every place that they could be
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They took it away they took it away again
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They had the sword and they had the pen
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Worse than Spaniards come for gold
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They took it away they took it away again
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Now they poison the lakes and the lands
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That their great grandfather stole
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verse 3
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Something happened in between the time
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It was home for the outlaw man
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And this time I like to think is mine
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Is just where all the oil money has been
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How can anybody make a meal
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From what they can't afford to grow
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What's going to be left to steal
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When there are no more free souls
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They took it away they took it away again
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How much time do you have to spend
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Just to get them to let you be
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Take it away take it away again
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I always want to be livin' in the land of the free
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The land of the free!