Tonart: E major
Verse 1
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Well I must've
walked for fourteen days
All that I could carry and I made my way
To the new holy land not
a grand parade
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Snuck across the border to the USA
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Didn't take to long for me
to find some work
Just stood there waiting round
in the Texas dirt
And now I lay concrete
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the way I did back home
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From 6am until the light is gone
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Then it's back to the hotel split a case of
Verse 2
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beer
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One for every person that's
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living here
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Four dollars an hour but nobody moans
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Cause it's three fifty more than we
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can get back home
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Then I send the money back down
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to my sweet wife
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So she can tell my children about a
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better life
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Papa's trying hard just
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to make it fine
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Fifty miles north of that Il legal line
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Verse 3
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Late one night they came in thru the door
With guns and lights screaming
get on the floor
They cuffed us up tight and hauled
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us all away
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Couldn't hardly understand a single
Early next morning judge drug us in
F#m
And stared us all down just
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like guilty men
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He said any of you boys got a thing to say
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I asked him what would he do if
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he were in my place
F#m
He said there's rules boy and this
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just ain't the way
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I said sometimes a starving family
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just can't wait
F#m
But he slammed down his gavel now
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I'm doing time
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Fifty miles north of that Illegal line
Outro 1
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