Robert Earl Keen – A Border Tale (Guitar Acoustic)

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There's an alley in Acuna

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Right next to a night club

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That's never been paved

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And is hip deep in chugholes

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It sort of trails into

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What once was a river

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But now is a ditch

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That smells just like sewage

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And there in the alley

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We're drinking Vampiras

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And smoking Delicados

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With Jaime and Umberto

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At three in the morning

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They order more nachos

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Another round of Vampiras

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'Cause they own the night club

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As well as the alley

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And all of a sudden

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We could not stop laughing

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And the laughter bounced off of

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The old precinct station

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And roared down the street

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Infecting the students

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Who were all still on spring break

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But now were all laughing

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Except for the one

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With the beautiful girlfriend

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Who looked like the virgin of Ciudad Acuna

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Who munched on a nacho

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And watched as her boyfriend

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Knelt down by Umberto

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And could not stop vomiting

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Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly

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Play the dead march as you bear me along

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Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me

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I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong

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