Texas Trilogy - Bosque County Romance

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Mary Martin was a schoolgirl just
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 seventeen or so
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When she married Billy Archer 
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about fourteen years ago
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Not even out of high school folks
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 said it wouldn't last
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But when you grow up in the 
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country, you grow up mighty fast
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They married in a hurry in March 
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when school was out
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Folks said that she was pregnant, 
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"You just wait and you'll find out."
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It came about that winter, one 
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gray November morn
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The first of many more to come, a 
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baby boy was born

[Chorus]
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And cattle is their game, and 
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Archer is the name
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They give to the acres that they own
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If the Brazos don't run dry and the
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 newborn calves they don't die
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Another year from Mary will have 
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flown
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Another year from Mary will have 
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flown

[Verse 2]
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Now Billy kept what cattle his 
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daddy could afford
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As he went bouncing across the 
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cactus in a 1950 Ford
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But the cows were sick and skinny 
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and the weeds was all that grew
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But Bill he kept the place alive 
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the only thing he knew
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And Mary cooked the supper and 
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Mary scrubbed the clothes
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And Mary busted horses and she 
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blew the baby's nose
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And Mary and a shotgun kept the 
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rattlesnakes away
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And how she kept on smiling no 
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one could ever say

[Chorus]
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And cattle is their game, and 
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Archer is the name
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They give to the acres that they own
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If the Brazos don't run dry and the
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 newborn calves they don't die
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Another year from Mary will have 
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flown
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Another year from Mary will have 
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flown

[Verse 3]
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Now the drought of '57 was a 
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curse upon the land
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No one in Bosque County could 
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give ol' Bill a helping hand
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The ground was cracked and broken
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 and the truck was out of gas
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And cows can't feed on prickly 
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pear instead of growing grass
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Well the weather got the water 
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and a snake bite took a child
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And a fire in the old barn took 
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the hay that Bill had piled
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The mortgage got the money and the
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 screw worm got the cows
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The years have come for Mary; 
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she's waiting for them now

[Chorus]
C                                 
And cattle is their game, and 
          F
Archer is the name
    D                           G
They give to the acres that they own
      F                 G          
If the Brazos don't run dry and the
C                          F
 newborn calves they don't die
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Another year from Mary will have 
Am
flown
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Another year from Mary will have 
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flown