Robert Earl Keen - My New Life is Waiting
A F#m
I crossed the Mississippi, turned south at San Anton
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A bowie knife, a woolen coat, a grip bag on my arm
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It's all somebody needs to make it through the land
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Walk the night, travel light, cross the Rio Grande
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Someone strums a mandolin, soft gulf breezes blow
A D E A
My new life is waiting in old Mexico
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I was once a married man livin' peacefully
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Hard to say exactly when the devil blinded me
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But there was some confusion when my sweet wife left this world
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Darker times, drunken crimes, a dead young working girl
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Left a jailer there in Caroline, watching me from down below
A D E A
My new life is waiting in old Mexico
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Livin' in the shadows Runnin' from my fame
A D D E
Blowin' where the wind blows Where no one knows my name
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In the El Vaquero Bar in the town of Eagle Pass
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Moments from my freedom warm whiskey in my glass
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Some boracho took me for the man who stole his wife
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He went for his forty-four as I reached for my knife
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He never fired a second shot he was just too slow
A D E A
My new life is waiting in old Mexico
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I hear of hidden harbors south of Mazatlan
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Where cool spring mountain waters meet the warm Pacific sun
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I pray the miles I've traveled and all the sins I bear
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Burn away like mornin' fog and vanish in the air
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Miles beyond the border now, but many miles to go
A D E A
My new life is waiting in old Mexico
A D E A
My new life is waiting in old Mexico
