Robert Earl Keen - My New Life Is Waiting In Old Mexico guitar chord

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