IN LONESOME DOVE (Garth Brooks)


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She was a girl on a wagon train
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Headed west across the plains.
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The train got lost in a summer storm.
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They couldn't move west and they couldn't go home
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Then she saw him ridin' through the rain.
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He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train.
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And she looked down and her heart was gone.
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The train went west but she stayed on in Lonesome Dove.


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A farmer's daughter with a gentle hand,
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A blooming rose in a bed of sand;
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She loved the man who wore a star,
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A Texas Ranger known near and far.
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So they got married and they had a child.
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But times were tough and the West was wild.
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So it was no surprise the day she learned
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That her Texas man would not return to Lonesome Dove. 


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Back to back with the Rio Grande, a Christian woman in the devil's land.
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She learned the language and she learned to fight,
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but she never learned how the beat the lonely nights
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in Lonesome Dove Lonesome Dove


     G
She watched her boy grow to a man.
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He had an angel's heart and the devil's hand.
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He wore his star for all to see.
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He was a Texas lawman legacy.
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Then one day word blew into town.
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It seemed the men that shot his father down
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Had robbed a bank in Cherico.
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Tho only thing 'tween them and Mexico was Lonesome Dove.


     G
The shadows stretched across the land
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As the shots rang out down the Rio Grande.
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And when the smoke had finally cleared the street,
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The men lay at the ranger's feet.
     G
But legend tells to this very day
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That shots were comin' from an alleyway.
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"Though no one knows who held the gun,
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There ain't no doubt if you ask someone in Lonesome Dove.


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