Robert Earl Keen - My New Life is Waiting
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I crossed the Mississippi, 
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turned south at San Anton 
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A bowie knife, a woolen coat,
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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
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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,
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a dead young working girl 
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Left a jailer there in Caroline, watching me from down below
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My new life is waiting in old Mexico



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Livin' in the shadows 
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Runnin' from my fame
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Blowin' where the wind blows
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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
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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 
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meet the warm Pacific sun
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I praythe 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
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My new life is waiting in old Mexico

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My new life is waiting in old Mexico