Bend Dont Break

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Where I slept on from time to time,
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where the shade does something for a troubled   mind,
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I saddle up Gray and he does   the rest;
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hell, we been coming down here since we were both kids.

[Verse 2]
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To that little spot down by a salt creek
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where miles upon miles break three oak   trees?
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They’re 'bout as big around as a wrecking ball,
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Standing 150 years tall.

[Chorus]
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They rolled out the fire and they rolled out the flood,
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hung a few bad men back when the West was wild and young.
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So, let the lightning strike and the thunder shake,
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gonna ride like hell anyway.
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'Cause in the wind I swear I can hear him say:
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son, you can bend but don’t you break.

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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I went there for my first beer and first kiss
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and when mama passed on I leaned on it.
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They heard me cry: God where are you,
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well, it turns out God hangs out there too.

[Chorus]
           D             G              D
Where they rolled out the fire and they rolled out the flood,
       Bm               A                 G
hung a few bad men back when the West was wild and young.
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So, let the lightning strike and the thunder shake,
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gonna ride like hell anyway.
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'Cause in the wind I swear I can hear him say:
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son, you can bend but don’t you break.

[End-Chorus]
           D             G              D
Where they rolled out the fire and they rolled out the flood,
       Bm               A                 G
hung a few bad men back when the West was wild and young.
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So, let the lightning strike and the thunder shake,
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gonna ride like hell anyway.
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'Cause in the wind I swear I can hear him say:
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son, you can bend but don’t you break.
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Son, you can bend but don't you break.

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