| Back home, a fire they keep
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| Out here the cold wind blows
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| I did not want to leave
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| I wonder if she knows
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| The first word she said to me was goodbye
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| In the west the sky grows darker
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| Back east the sun will rise
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| Back home my wife and daughter
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| Don’t know where I am tonight
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| But soon I will find a road that leads home
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| A man could die out here, they’d never know
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| No longer will I walk among the ghosts
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| Even though I left so long ago
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| I got someone waiting back at home
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| We got married down in Texas, Texas
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| A little daughter of our own
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| She doesn’t care about
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| The cold wind that carried this song
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| All that she knows right now
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| Is that her father’s still gone
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| The first word she learned to say was to say goodbye
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| A man could die out here, they’d never know
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| No longer will I walk among the ghosts
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| Even though I left so long ago
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| I got someone waiting back at home
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| We got married down in Texas, Texas
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| A little daughter of our own
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| A man could die out here, they’d never know
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| No longer will I walk among the ghosts
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| Even though I left so long ago
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| I got someone waiting back at home
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| We got married down in Texas, Texas
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| A little daughter of our own
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| Life out here is getting reckless, reckless
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| Better find my way back home
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| We got married down in Texas, Texas
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| Our little girl will soon be grown
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| I can’t stay, I’m getting restless, restless
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| You’re gonna have to let me go |