Tonalidad: G major
Verse 1
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Down in the Struggled Timber,
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that Southeast Texas gold
Used to ride an old brakeman,
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a brakeman double tough
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He worked the town of Kilgore
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and Longview nine miles down
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Us travelers called him East Texas Red,
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the meanest bull around
If you rode by night or by
broad daylight
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In the wind, in the snow or sun
You'd always see little East
Texas Red
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Sportin' that smooth runnin' gun
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The tail got switched down to stems
and mains
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And everybody said
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The meanest bull
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on them shiny rails
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was Little East Texas Red
It was early in the morning,
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around near nine or ten
When a couple of boys on the
hunt for jobs
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stood out in the blizzardy wind
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Hungry and cold,
they knocked on the doors
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of the working folks around for
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a piece of meat or a spud or two
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to boil the stew around
Red come down off the cinder dump
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and he waved off number two
He kicked their stew pot into
the bush
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and he dumped out all their stew
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One traveler said,
Mr. East Texas Red,
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you better get your business right
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Cause you won't ride
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your westbound train
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just one year from tonight
Reddy just left and climbed up the bank,
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swung on the side of a wheeler
The boys caught a boxcar to Seminole
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and on west out to Amarillo
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They struck them a job of oil
field work
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and they followed the pipeline down
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It took them many places
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until one year rolled around
It was on one cold and wintry day
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they got them a Gulf
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-bound train
They shivered and they shook
with their money and their clothes
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to go see Kilgore again
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Over hills of sand and hard
-froze roads
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where the cotton wagons roll
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On past the town of Kilgore
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and into Longview
Where their warm
suits and clothes
and their jackets
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They walked into a store
They paid the man for some
meat and stuff
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To boil the stew once more
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They walked the tires back
past the yard
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Till they got to the same spot
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Where East Texas Red,
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just one year before,
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had dumped out their stew pot
The smoke from their fire went
higher and higher
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and his man come down the line
He ducked his head into the blizzardy
wind
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and he waved off number nine
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He come down off the cinder dump
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and down to the same spot
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And there was the same
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around that same stupor
Red went to his knees
and he hollered,
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Please don't pull that trigger on me
I did not get my business right
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But the man did not hear his plea
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A gun came out of an overcoat
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He got hit with the one and two
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And Red lay dead
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when the other two men
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sat down to eat their stew.
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