Spanish Johnny

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Those other years, the dusty years
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When we drove the big herds through
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I tried to forget the miles we rode
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And Spanish Johnny too

[Verse 2]
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He'd sit beside a water ditch when 
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all his herd was in
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And he'd never harm a child but 
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sing   to his mandolin
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He sang the old songs, the old ways,
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and the dealins' of our game
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Spanish Johnny seldom spoke, but 
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sang songs of Spain

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[Verse 3]
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And his talk with men was vicious 
talk
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When he was drunk on gin
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Ah, but those were golden things he
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 said   to his mandolin


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[vERSE 4]

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We had to stand, we had to judge,
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We had to stop him then
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For the hand so gentle to a child 
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had killed so many men

[vERSE 5]
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He died a hard death long ago 
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before the roads came in
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And the night before he swung he 
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sung  to his mandolin
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Well, we carried him out in the 
mornin' light
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a man who done no good
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And we lowered him down in the cold 
cold clay
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Stuck in a cross of wood
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And a letter he wrote to his kinfolk
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To tell them where he'd been
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And we shipped it on down to Mexico,
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Along with his  mandolin