Grand Prairie Tx Homesick Blues

	  		



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Grand Prairie, Texas, home on the range 

I come here for salvation but I'm just another stranger  
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On a strip highway  
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Where nobody stops or stays 
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Hell-bent on revival, looking to grow some roots 
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I have mortgaged my survival with these worn out cowboy boots 
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But there's just one horse in forty miles  
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And he's the prize possession of the Dallas zoo 
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And he feels like a stranger, too  


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Old Silver, take me riding through the foothills of my life 

I went easy in the saddle with a lever-action rifle  
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And a tin canteen  
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Through a field of dreams 
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Way out by the Beltline where the armadillos play 
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With the noble bootjack rabbit in the evening of the day 
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Oh where my brothers have you gone  
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For I return to thank you for the gifts you gave 
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But the field is paved  


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These nights I work the graveyard at the Burger King downtown 

I get off in the morning and I lay my wages down  
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At the convenience store  
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Where stood my old front door 
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St. Peter when you call me, you can find me waiting here 
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Beneath this sad mimosa tree with a quart of drive-thru beer 
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For home is in the heartland, but the heartland cannot save you  
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When the heart is gone 
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And home's moved on