Brownsville Girl

A                                 
Well, there was this movie I seen 
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one time
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About a man riding 'cross the 
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desert and it starred Gregory Peck
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He was shot down by a hungry kid 
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trying to make a name for himself
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The townspeople wanted to crush 
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that kid down and string him up by 
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the neck

A                                 
Well, the marshal, now he beat 
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that kid to a bloody pulp
Bm                                
As the dying gunfighter lay in the
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 sun and gasped for his last breath
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Turn him loose, let him go, let 
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him say he outdrew me fair and 
square
Bm                                
I want him to feel what it's like 
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to every moment face his death

A                                 
Well, I keep seeing this stuff and
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 it just comes a-rolling in
Bm                                
And you know it blows right 
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through me like a ball and chain
A                                 
You know I can't believe we've 
                               D
lived so long and are still so far 
apart
Bm                            
The memory of you keeps callin' 
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after me like a rollin' train

A                              
I can still see the day that you 
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came to me on the painted desert
Bm                                
In your busted down Ford and your 
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platform heels
A                              
I could never figure out why you 
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chose that particular place to meet
Bm                           
Ah, but you were right, it was 
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perfect as I got in behind the 
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wheel

A                                 
Well, we drove that car all night 
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into San Anton'
Bm                                
And we slept near the Alamo, your 
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skin was so tender and soft
A                                 
Way down in Mexico you went out to
                        D
 find a doctor and you never came 
back
Bm                                
I would have gone on after you but
                        E          
 I didn't feel like letting my head
        A
 get blown off

A                                 
Well, we're drivin' this car and 
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the sun is comin' up over the 
Rockies
Bm                                
Now I know she ain't you but she's
                        E          
 here and she's got that dark 
         A
rhythm in her soul
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But I'm too over the edge and I 
ain't in the mood anymore to 
remember
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the times when I was your only man
Bm                                
And she don't want to remind me, 
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she knows this car would go out of 
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control

[Chorus]

A                        
Brownsville girl with your 
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Brownsville curls
Bm                    E          
Teeth like pearls shining like 
        A
the moon above
A                                 
Brownsville girl, show me all 
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around the world
Bm                   E            
Brownsville girl, you're my honey 
 A
love

[Verse]

A                                 
Well, we crossed the panhandle and
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 then we headed towards Amarillo
Bm                                
We pulled up where Henry Porter 
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used to live, he owned a wreckin' 
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lot outside of town about a mile
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Ruby was in the backyard hanging 
clothes, she had her red hair tied 
back
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She saw us come rolling up in a 
trail of dust
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She said, Henry ain't here but you
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 can come on in, he'll be back in a
       A
 little while

A
Then she told us how times were 
tough and about how she was thinkin'
 of
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bummin' a ride back to where she 
started
Bm                                
But she changed the subject every 
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time money came up
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She said, welcome to the land of 
the living dead, you could tell she 
         A
was so broken-hearted
Bm                                
She said, even the swap meets 
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around here are getting pretty 
corrupt

A                                 
How far are y'all going, Ruby 
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asked us with a sigh
Bm                             
We're going all the way 'til the 
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wheels fall off and burn
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'Til the sun peels the paint and 
the seat covers fade and the water 
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moccasin dies
Bm                                
Ruby just smiled and said, ah, you
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 know some babies never learn

A                                 
Something about that movie though,
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 well I just can't get it out of my 
head
Bm                                
But I can't remember why I was in 
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it or what part I was supposed to 
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play
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All I remember about it was 
                        D
Gregory Peck and the way people 
moved
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And a lot of them seemed to be 
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lookin' my way

[Chorus]

A                        
Brownsville girl with your 
        D
Brownsville curls
Bm                    E          
Teeth like pearls shining like 
        A
the moon above
A                                 
Brownsville girl, show me all 
      D
around the world
Bm                   E            
Brownsville girl, you're my honey 
 A
love

[Verse]

A                                 
Well, they were looking for 
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somebody with a pompadour
Bm                               
I was crossin' the street when 
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shots rang out
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I didn't know whether to duck or 
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to run, so I ran
Bm                       
We got him cornered in the 
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churchyard, I heard somebody shout

A                             
Well, you saw my picture in the 
Corpus Christi Tribune, underneath 
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it, it said, a man with no alibi
Bm                                
You went out on a limb to testify 
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for me, you said I was with you
A                                 
Then when I saw you break down in 
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front of the judge and cry real 
tears
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It was the best acting I saw 
        A
anybody do

A
Now I've always been the kind of 
person that doesn't like to 
trespass,
but sometimes you just find yourself
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 over the line
Bm                                
Oh if there's an original thought 
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out there, I could use it right now
A                                 
You know, I feel pretty good, but 
that ain't sayin' much, I could feel
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 a whole lot better
Bm                           E   
If you were just here by my side 
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to show me how

A                                 
Well, I'm standin' in line in the 
                                 D
rain to see a movie starring Gregory
 Peck
Bm                                
Yeah, but you know it's not the 
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one that I had in mind
A                                 
He's got a new one out now, I 
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don't even know what it's about
Bm                                
But I'll see him in anything so 
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I'll stand in line

[Chorus]

A                        
Brownsville girl with your 
        D
Brownsville curls
Bm                    E          
Teeth like pearls shining like 
        A
the moon above
A                                 
Brownsville girl, show me all 
      D
around the world
Bm                   E            
Brownsville girl, you're my honey 
 A
love

A                             
You know, it's funny how things 
never turn out the way you had 'em 
     D
planned
Bm                            
The only thing we knew for sure 
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about Henry Porter is that his name
                 A
 wasn't Henry Porter
A                              
And you know there was somethin' 
about you baby that I liked that was
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 always too good for this world
Bm                                
Just like you always said there 
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was something about me you liked
                               A
that I left behind in the French 
Quarter

A                           
Strange how people who suffer 
together have stronger connections 
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than people who are most content
Bm                                
I don't have any regrets, they can
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 talk about me plenty when I'm gone
A
You always said people don't do what
 they believe in
they just do what's most convenient,
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 then they repent
Bm                                
And I always said, hang on to me, 
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baby, and let's hope that the roof 
    A
stays on

A                                 
There was a movie I seen one time,
                         D
 I think I sat through it twice
Bm                             E 
I don't remember who I was or 
            A
where I was bound
A                            
All I remember about it was it 
starred Gregory Peck, he wore a gun 
                        D
and he was shot in the back
Bm                             
Seems like a long time ago, long 
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before the stars were torn down

[Chorus]

A                        
Brownsville girl with your 
        D
Brownsville curls
Bm                    E          
Teeth like pearls shining like 
        A
the moon above
A                                 
Brownsville girl, show me all 
      D
around the world
Bm                   E            
Brownsville girl, you're my honey 
 A
love

A                        
Brownsville girl with your 
        D
Brownsville curls
Bm                    E          
Teeth like pearls shining like 
        A
the moon above
A                                 
Brownsville girl, show me all 
      D
around the world
Bm                   E            
Brownsville girl, you're my honey 
 A
love

A                        
Brownsville girl with your 
        D
Brownsville curls
Bm                    E          
Teeth like pearls shining like 
        A
the moon above