Clear Isabel

Capo 4
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Isabel let her brown skin shine like a sapphire in the summer sun
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The pride and joy of a Mexican lawman who lived by the gun
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He got crossways with a cartel they shot down his only son Jose
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So, in fear of his daughter's life he packed the bags late one night
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She heard him say

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I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
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They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood red sangria wine
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South Texas looks like heaven when your down here in this living hell
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So, come on let's cross that Rio the coast is clear Isabel
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The coast clear Isabel

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They came across our homestead tired and hungry cold and moving slow
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We had fence to build, a warm place to stay, and they had nowhere to go
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So, I worked cattle with her father we were stretching wire and driving post all day
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While Isabel worked with my mother and late at night I held her tight
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She'd take my breath away

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I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
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They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood red sangria wine
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South Texas looks like heaven when your down here in this living hell
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So, come on let's cross that Rio the coast is clear Isabel
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The coast clear Isabel

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The sheriff came across the father they treated him like an outlaw on the run
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And Isabel now wears my diamond and that little boy she holds is my son
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We got a Green Card for her father Mariano but it came two years too late
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We got word that he'd been gunned down in a border town shot in the back
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The last thing they heard him say


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I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
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They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood red sangria wine
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South Texas looks like heaven when your down here in this living hell
               G                                    F
So, come on let's cross that Rio the coast is clear Isabel
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The coast clear Isabel
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Clear Isabel
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Clear Isabel