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As I walked out in Lar-edo one day.
VERSE ONE
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As I walked out in the streets of Lar-edo,
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as I walked out in Lar-edo one day.
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I spied a young cowboy wrapped all in white linen.
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Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay.
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Oh beat the drums slowly..and play the pipe lowly
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Sing the dead march..as you carry me along
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Take me to the valley there lay the sod o?re me
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I?m a young cowboy and know I?ve done wrong
VERSE TWO
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I see by your outfit..that you are a cowboy.
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These words he did say as I boldly walked by
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Come sit down be-side me and hear my sad story
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Got shot in the breast and I know I must die.
VERSE THREE
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fetch
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To cool my parched lips then the poor cowboy said
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before I re-turned his sprit had left him
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had gone to his maker, the cowboy was dead.
CHORUS REPEAT
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Oh beat the drums slowly..and play the pipe lowly
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Sing the dead march..as you carry me along
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Take me to the valley there lay the sod o?re me
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I?m a young cowboy and know I?ve done wrong