CALEB AND RAE DAWN
HOUSTON MARCHMAN

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CALEB GREW UP POOR AND HARD ON THE BOSQUE COUNTY LINE
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MADE TO DO A FULL DAYS WORK BY THE TIME HE WAS NINE
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CALEB’S DADDY WAS A DRUNK, HIS MAMA SHE WAS DEAD
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WORKING FOR THE COUNTY, WHEN THAT DITCH CAVED IN ON HER HEAD

BY THE TIME CALEB TURNED EIGHTEEN, HE WAS SIX FOOT THREE AND HARD
HE WAS TIRED OF WORKING AT THE DAIRY QUEEN AND MOWIN THE PEOPLES YARDS
THEM BOYS COME DOWN FROM DALLAS LIKE GHOST YOU COULD NOT SEE
BUT YOU COULD SMELL ‘EM EVERY NIGHT COOKING THEIR METHAMPHETAMINES

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CALEB LEARNED HIS LESSON, HE WAS BOUND TO LEARN EM YOUNG
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THE ONLY THING HE’D EVER GET, HE’D GET IT WITH A GUN


RAE DAWN WAS A LONESOME CHILD WHOSE DADDY JUST GAVE HER MONEY
SHE HAD SLEPT WITH EVERYTHING IN TOWN BY THE TIME SHE WAS TWENTY
SHE WAS LOOKING FOR SOME GOOD REASON BUT SAD THE REASON WHY
RAE DAWN FOUND THAT BETWEEN HER LEGS WOULD ALWAYS GET HER BY

THEY BOTH FELL IN WITH THEM BOYS AND INTO SATAN’S HAND
THEY WERE ROLLIN’ EIGHTEEN WHEELS OF HELL UP TO THE ADDICTS PROMISE LAND
THE MONEY, IT WAS GOOD, BUT RAE DAWN SHE WAS BETTER
SHE LOVED TO RIDE THAT TWELVE GAUGE PUMP, AND CALEB LOVE TO LET HER

THEY WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER, BLOW A HOLE RIGHT THROUGH THE SUN
THE ONLY THING THEY’D EVER GET THEY’D GET WITH A GUN

SOME ROADS ARE HARD TO HANDLE, SOME LOVES ARE JUST HARD SONGS
TOO MUCH CRANK AND A FIFTH OF GIN, ONE NIGHT IT ALL WENT WRONG
JUST SOUTH OF RIO VISTA WHERE THE BRAZOS RUNS SO DEEP
THE DEA, THEY THREW DOWN WITH AN OATH THEY SWORE TO KEEP

THERE REALLY AIN’T NO GOOD REASON LAWD AND NO GOOD REASON WHY
SOME OF US ARE BORN TO LIVE AND OTHERS BORN TO DIE
CALEB GRABBED HIM A GEAR, RAE DAWN JACKED IN A SHELL
THE DEA THEY LET GO AND THEY RODE THAT RIG TO HELL

THEY WERE BOUND TO LEARN THEIR LESSON, THEY HAD TO LEARN THEM YOUNG
THE ONLY THING THEY’D EVER GET, GET IT WITH A GUN