It was the middle of Montana on a cold winter night
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When our van pulled up outside the door.
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We'd been on the road for three months, four-hundred miles that day;
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We were tired, but we loaded our stuff out onto the floor.
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There was Mad Jack on the fiddle and old Bill on the bass,
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Tom played the lonesome steel,
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I played the guitar around the place,
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And it was Walker behind the wheel.
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Well, the crowd was with us that night right up till closin',
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And we played like we hadn't played in awhile.
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When we were through even the management was pleased,
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So we all hit the bar with a smile,
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When this old man full of whiskey comes over to me
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And says with a look in his eye,
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"I can tell by your songs you're from Texas, boys,
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Brother, well so am I... tell me..."
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CHORUS:
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"Do the bluebonnets carpet the fields in the spring?
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Does the Brazos still run to the sea?
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Does the sun still shine down on those Texas girls?
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Once one gave her love to me."
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He said, "you see, son, there was a time when my song was just as sweet as
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Yours,
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And I traveled and I worked with the best.
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But day after day got to be year after year,
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And the road gives you no time to rest.
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The runaway dreams put a rope to my soul,
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The nights took my company,
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The whiskey got the lyrics to most of my songs,
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And the age took my memory... tell me..."
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REPEAT CHORUS
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"So you see, I see a lot of myself in you and your friends here,
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I see the poet, the clown, and sometimes the king.
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So just you take care of yourself and try not to end up like me,
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With a bunch of broken dreams and no song left to sing.
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Aw, I didn't mean to go preachin' at ya, let me buy you a beer,
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I guess I spend to much time talkin' alone.
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But you write pretty good songs from what I can hear,
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And you paint me a picture of home... tell me..."
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REPEAT CHORUS
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There was Mad Jack on the fiddle and old Bill on the bass,
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Tom played the lonesome steel,
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I played the guitar around the place,
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And it was Walker behind the wheel.
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REPEAT CHORUS
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Walker Behind The Wheel
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Brian Burns |