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[Verse 1]
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   I was traveling through the country
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A golden sunset at my back
   G
And when nighttime overtook me
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I found a place to hang my hat


[Chorus 1]
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So I walked in through the front door
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The smell of cigarettes and paint
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That's when I first set my eyes on
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The yellow rose of Santa Fe


[Verse 2]
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She was dancing with no music
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She was floating in the air
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And all the while that precious flower

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Stayed between her strands of hair
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I asked if she'd ever been lonely
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She said I've never been at all
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So she took me worn and weary
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And led me drifting down the hall


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  She read me like the front page
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And she loved me like a storm
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Though she fixed me with her cold gaze
          G            D
I've never seen a smile so warm


[Chorus 2]
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In the morning she was nowhere
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 As the moon is in the day
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The only souvenir she left me
D                A          D
The yellow rose of Santa Fe

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G A Bm 
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[Verse 3]
D 
  Now I moved on and I got married
                  G
Had three children with my wife
                        A
There's not a single day that passes
                       D
That I'm not happy with my life


[Chorus 3]
D
 But I'm still walking with my shoes off
             A                    G
I don't think about her every day
                    A
But I still carry it with me
                   D
The yellow rose of Santa Fe


D      G
  I was traveling through the country
   A                 D
The golden sunset in a haze
                       G
And I can see it in the red sky
Am                  D
  The yellow rose of Santa Fe
                   G
I can see it in the red sky
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 The yellow rose of Santa Fe