My heart’s
tonight in Texas
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1. In the distant state of
Texas by the silver Rio Grande,
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strolled a couple out one evening, was two
sweethearts hand in hand.
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Was a rich man's pretty daughter and the
lad she loved so dear,
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though tomorrow
they must part for many a year.
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My heart's tonight in Texas, though I'm far across the sea,
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the band is playing
"Dixie" and there's where I long to be.
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Dad says an earl I'll marry but although here is my hand,
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my heart's tonight in Texas by
the silver Rio Grande. + G - C
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2. To Europe she was going to become a lady grand,
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where
her father hopes an earl, of course, she'll wed,
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but
she went away next morning and her heart was true to Jack,
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for a
letter came one day and this it read :
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3. At a stately ball in England stood the Texas
lad one night,
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the
scenes were splendid and the lights were dazzling bright.
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It was there the earl knelt beside her asking her to be his bride,
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but her thoughts
were by the silver Rio Grande.
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(orig. = capo 2nd) (The Carter Family)