They Took It Away

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[Verse 1]
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My kin come to Texas from Tennessee
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With Davy Crockett a long time ago
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     I guess it's pretty lucky for 
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me
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They didn't all go to the Alamo
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They fought to make Texas free
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From the armies of Old Mexico
They must have thought it was 
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something to be
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In a land where a family could 
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grow

[Chorus]
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So they took it away     they took
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 it away again
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     I wonder what those brave women
 and men
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Would do if they came back around
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What would they say
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     About the way everything has 
been
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     I don't think they were trying 
to win
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A place to put poison in the 
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ground

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[Verse 2]
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Now I live on an Oklahoma hill
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It ain't Texas but it used to be
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     Back before Jackson signed a 
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deal
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To make it Indian Territory
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In the winter that was freezin' cold
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They marched the Cherokee
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In the land rush the settlers stole
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every place that they could be
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[Chorus 2]
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They took it away     they took it
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 away again
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     They had the sword and they had
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 the pen
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Worse than Spaniards come for gold
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They took it away     they took it
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 away again
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     Now they poison the lakes and 
the lands
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That their great grandfather stole
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[Verse 3]
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     Something happened in 
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between the time
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It was home for the outlaw man
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     And this time I like to 
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think is mine
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Is just where all the oil money has
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 been
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How can anybody make a meal
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From what they can't afford to 
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grow
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What's going to be left to steal
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When there are no more free souls
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[Chorus 3]
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They took it away     they took it
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 away again
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     How much time do you have to 
spend
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Just to get them to let you be
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Take it away     take it away again
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     I always want to be livin' 
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in the land of the free
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The land of the free!