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 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 
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They must have thought it was something to be  
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In a land where a family could grow 

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So they took it away     they took 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 ground
 

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 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  
      Em                    G    A  G  
every place that they could be    
 
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They took it away     they took it away again 
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     They had the sword and they had the pen 
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Worse than Spaniards come for gold 
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They took it away     they took it 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 between the time  
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It was home for the outlaw man 
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     And this time I like to think is mine  
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Is just where all the oil money has been 
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How can anybody make a meal 
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From what they can't afford to 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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They took it away     they took it 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' in the land of the free  
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The land of the free!