Johnny Cash - New Mexico

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[Verse 1]

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It was in the town of Griffin, the year was ’83
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It was there an old cow-puncher stepped up and said to me
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How do you do young fellow and how would you like to go
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And spend a pleasant summer out in New Mexico

[Verse 2]
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I’ll furnish you good wages your transportation too
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If you will but go with me one summer season’s through
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But if you should get homesick and back to Griffin go
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Then I’ll furnish you no horses from the hills of Mexico

[Verse 3]
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We left the town of Griffin in the merry month of May
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When all the world was lovely and everything was gay
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With saddles on our horses marching onward we did go
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Until we reached Old Boggy out in New Mexico

[Verse 4]
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It was there our pleasures ended and our troubles they began
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The first hailstorm fell on us, those cattle how they ran
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Through all the thorns and thistles the cowboys had to go
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While the Indians watched upon us out in New Mexico

[Verse 5]
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And when the drive was over the rider would not pay
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To all you happy people this much I have to say
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Go back to your friends and loved ones tell others not to go
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To the God-forsaken country they call New Mexico