West Texas Holiday

INTRO   
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VERSE I
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September comes to Texas just one 
time every year,
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so we get our guns and our pickup 
trucks,
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and a bunch of that Lone Star beer,

well we head out for the open 
plains,
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where the birds they all flow like 
wine,
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we hunt them up then we shoot them 
down,
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man it makes me feel so fine,

The manly sport is what I'm talking 
about,
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so you can grab you a pouch of chew,
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If we get bored 'cause the birds 
won't fly,
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we'll shoot the rabbits with my .22.

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CHORUS I
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I don't wanna go to Paris, I get 
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enough French will my fries,
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just send me on down to Abilene, 
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for the huntingman's paradise,
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Honey you can stay at home all day, 
laugh and dance,
go out shopping and play, 'cause 
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I'll be out with the boys,
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the intro E)
on a West Texas Holiday.

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VERSE II
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Hunting is a lot like religion or so
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 it is I'm told,
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they're both just a simple little 
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way of life,
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and they're both good for your soul,
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 from Robert Earl Keen
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to Robert E. Lee, perfect strangers 
or best of friends,
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we all have a common little bond 
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between us, we were born to be 
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huntin men.
If it flies it dies you know they 
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say, and so often times it's true,
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yeah but you take yours and I'll 
take mine,
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and we'll have us a Bar-B-Que.

CHORUS II
A                              
I don't wanna go to Paris, I get 
     E
enough French will my fries,
      A                            
just send me on down to Abilene, 
       F#               B
for the huntingman's paradise,
E
Honey you can stay at home all day, 
laugh and dance,
go out shopping and play, 'cause 
 A
I'll be out with the boys,
    B                E
on a West Texas Holiday.

REPEAT CHORUS II

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