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Standin’ here beside this freeway wishing I was high
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Wondering why she said she loved me then she said goodbye
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I’m down to my last dollar in these faded old blue jeans
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So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans

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Her hair was made of summer sunlight the moon lit in her eyes
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Her voice would ride the wind at midnight across the starry skies
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Love is blind that’s what they tell me in all those magazines
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So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans

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We talked about our lives together we talked about our plans
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We walked through rain and windy weather across the shifting sands
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She took the car that’s how I know this ain’t no crazy dream
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So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans

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I’ll eat my fill of jambalaya and crawfish etouffé
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I’ll drink the Mississippi dry, laissez les bon temps rouler
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I’ll trade her memory in on one of those Cajun queens
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So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans
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So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans