[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Well, I hope to tell you, Johnny
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That I lay that rifle down
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Had to leave the noose and the calaboose
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And a-headed for another town
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Well, I've got your name in San Jose
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And your picture's there to see
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And they're shootin' men in Texas
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Just because they look like me
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And we will run the ridges of our green land Tennessee
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And we will hide for forty years, if that's what's meant to be
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Meant to be, meant to be
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Meant to be, meant to be, meant to be
[Verse]
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Maybe we could try for Mexico
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And cross the desert sand
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But they're guardin' 'cross the border
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'Case we swim the Rio Grande
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And we will run the ridges of our green land Tennessee
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And we will hide for forty years, if that's what's meant to be
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Meant to be, meant to be
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Meant to be, meant to be, meant to be
[Verse]
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Well, they'll rope and tie you, Johnny
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And they'll throw you to the ground
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And they'll let you hang a week or two
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'Fore they cut your body down
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And we will run the ridges of our green land Tennessee
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And if we will hide for forty years, if that's what's meant to be
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Meant to be, meant to be
[Chorus]
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And we will run the ridges of our green land Tennessee
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And we will hide for forty years, if that's what's meant to be
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Meant to be, meant to be
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Meant to be, meant to be, meant to be
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Meant to be, meant to be, meant to be
[Outro]
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