Idabel
By Emory Quinn
9/11/2010
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Idabel won’t you forget me
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Lay me down won’t you let me be
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I was a boy only seventeen
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Killed a man washed my hands clean
Heading west towards New Mexico
Moving fast and keeping low
Bedded down outside of Santa Fe
In case the law men try to come my way
Chorus 1:
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And I’ve got nowhere to go
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Just a desolated road
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A pistol and a smoke
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On a pony that I stole
I ran the Pecos down to Eagle Pass
At the Church of the Virgin I had my last mass
Forgive me Lord won’t you keep me from hell
For I killed the man who had killed Idabel
Soon found work outside of Monterrey
Mending fence for food and meager pay
I met a girl just like eternal fire
She stole away the left of my desires
Chorus 2:
Her hair was black and long
The consumption filled her lungs
I wanted her to wed
I got her boy instead
Idabel won’t you forgive me
Lay me down won’t you let me be
Now you’re both gone I’m like the wind you see
I’m running fast and I’m running free
Me and a boy who’s only 5 years old
Who need the guidance of a steadfast soul
Heading north back to the Promised Land where I
Hope more awaits me than a hangman’s stand
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