Then she'd be here with me Then nothin' else would come between the two of us If Dallas was in Tennessee Oh if Dallas was in Tennessee Dallas packed
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: He came home late from his work one day Said he wanted some time alone What about you, what about me, what about love I knew I couldn?t take this love
: There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas. The trouble
Dallas without us tonight Oh Lord, I hate to break the news to mama She's gettin' on in years and worries so Maybe I should've stayed in Dallas And
comes from deep in the heart of Texas Somewhere round about Fort Worth Dallas or Houston or ol' El Paso She waits for me I know [ ac.guitar ] In Fort Worth Dallas
back And look across that light blue haze And from the back side of Dallas her mind goes Driftin' back to other days Meet me in Dallas on June, the
if you wanted to Say goodbye to Houston for me give my best to San Antone Tell Dallas there's a change in plans I won't be comin' home Dallas lives
put me down when I'm taking my stand Be proud of this young Dallas Cowboy Yeah I'm proud I'm a young Dallas Cowboy Be proud of those young Dallas Cowboys
to stay there 'til I die (Until I die) I've got the Dallas blues And the Main Street heart disease (It's buzzin' 'round) I've got the Dallas blues
There goes my reason for living there goes my everything I hear footsteps slowly walking as they gently walk across a lonely floor And a voice is softly
My driftin' mem'ry goes back to the spring of '43 When I was just a child in mama's arms My daddy plowed the ground and prayed that some day we could
Way back in '29 somewhere in Coffeeville Was a honky tonk named Big Mable Murphy's She had a sweetheart named Little Melvin And hair would fly between
I can see a long line of cars with their headlights on I can see kinfolks cryin' cause somebody's gone Then they gather around as it let the sinner men
I just left San Antonio Heading down to the town of Laredo Got my mind on the border of Mexico Gonna stop for a tank off To go at a place called a Purple
I didn't hear the engines of a jet plane I didn't hear the whistle of a train I didn't hear the taxi driver knockin' on my door I didn't hear her walkin