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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Mescal is free in Amanda's saloon
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for the boys from the old Broken Hole
Saturday nights in the town of
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Sonora are the best in all Mexico
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They've got guitars and trumpets and sweet
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senoritas who won't want to let you go
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You'd never believe such a happy town had
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a street called Sonora's death row
Verse 2
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Inside Amanda's we were all dancing
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with six of Amanda's gals
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I won some silver at 7- card stud
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so I was outdoing my pals
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But the whiskey and mescal and peso cigars
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drove me outside for some air
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Somebody whispered "Your life or your money,"
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I reached but my gun wasn't there
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Verse 3
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I woke up face down in Amanda's back alley,
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aware of the fool I had been
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Rushed to a saddle and grabbed someone's
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rifle and entered Amanda's again
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Where I saw my partners twirling my pistol
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and throwing my money around
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Blinded by anger, I jacked the lever and one of
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them fell to the ground
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Amanda's got silent like night in the desert,
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my friends stared in pure disbelief
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Amanda was kneeling beside the dead
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cowboy plainly expressing her grief
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And as I bowed my head a tremble shot through me,
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my pistol was still at my side
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I felt my pockets and there was my money,
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I fell to my knees and I cried
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Verse 5
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A nightmare of mescal was all that it was,
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no one had robbed me at all
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I wish I was dreaming the sound of the gallows
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they're testing just outside the wall
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And the mescal's still free in Amanda's saloon
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for the boys from the old Broken Hole
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I'd pay a ransom to drink there today an d be free of Son
Outro 1
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