For Love
Robert Earl Keen
[Intro]
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Strapped my guns and courage on set my cattle free
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Rolled a smoke and I made a vow no more to be reviled
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Combed her hair and laid her out pretty as you please
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Watched the fire light up the night, crying like a child
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Saw a man in San Antone shoot down a dancin' queen
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And asked him on his hangin day, what was he thinkin of
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He said I never liked the way she treated me so mean
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In the end I'll tell you friend, I did it all for love
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Stood out on the ragged edge and there I took the fall
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I did it all for love my friend, for love I did it all
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Just this side of Devil's Dream above the sulphur mine
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I found the man who robbed me of the girl I loved and lost
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I asked him before he died what made him cross the line
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He asked me did I mean the line that I just stepped across
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I..... Wonder why?
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I've walked this earth these many years and left a trail of fire
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But once I was a gentle man every bit like you
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Watched the heavens opened up, heard the angel choir
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Sing the holy song of God, to thine own self be true