Bob Dylan – Red River Shore (Guitar)

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Some of us turn off the lights and we live

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And the moonlight shooting by

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Some of us scare ourselves to death in the dark

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To be where the angels fly

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Pretty maids all in a row lined up

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Outside my cabin door

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I've never wanted any of them wanting me

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Except the girl from the Red River Shore

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Well, I sat by her side and for a while I tried

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To make that girl my wife

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She gave me her best advice and she said

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Go home and lead a quiet life

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Well, I been to the east and I been to the west

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And I been out where the black winds roar

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Somehow though I never did get that far

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With the girl from the Red River Shore

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Well, I knew when I first laid eyes on her

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I could never be free

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One look at her and I knew right away

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She should always be with me

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Well, the dream dried up a long time ago

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Don't know where it is anymore

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True to life, true to me

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Was the girl from the Red River Shore

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Well, I'm wearing the cloak of misery

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And I've tasted jilted love

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And the frozen smile upon my face

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Fits me like a glove

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Well, I can't escape from those memories

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Of the one that I'll always adore

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All those nights, when I lay in the arms

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Of the girl from the Red River Shore

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Well, we're living in the shadows of a fading past

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Trapped in the fires of time

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I'd tried not to ever hurt anybody

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And to stay out of a life of crime

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And when it's all been said and done

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I never did know the score

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One more day is another day away

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From the girl from the Red River Shore

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Well, I'm a stranger here in a strange land

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But I know this is where I belong

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I'll ramble and gamble for the one I love

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And the hills will give me a song

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Though nothing looks familiar to me

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I know I've stayed here before

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Once, a thousand nights ago

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With the girl from the Red River Shore

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Well, I went back to see about her once

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Went back to straighten it out

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Everybody that I talked to had seen us there

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Said they didn't know who I was talking about

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Well, the sun went down on me a long time ago

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I had to go back from the door

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I wish I could have spent every hour of my life

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With the girl from the Red River Shore

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Now I heard of a guy who lived a long time ago

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A man full of sorrow and strife

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That if someone around him died and was dead

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He knew how to bring 'em on back to life

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Well, I don't know what kind of language he used

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Or if they do that kind of thing anymore

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Sometimes I think nobody saw me here at all

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Except the girl from the Red River Shore