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Introdução:
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When I was but a young man, I was wild and full of fire
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A youth within my teens, but full of challenge and desire
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I ran away from home and left my mother and my dad
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I know it grieved them so to think their only boy went bad
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One night we rustled cattle, a thousand head or so
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And started then out on the trail that leads to Mexico
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When a norther started blowing and lightning flashed about
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I thought someone was calling me, I thought I heard a shout
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Then at that moment lightning struck not twenty yards from me
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And left there was a giant cross where once there was a tree
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This time I knew I heard a voice, a voice so sweet and strange
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A voice that came from everywhere, a voice that called my name
I So frightened I was thinking of sinful deeds I'd done