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In the distant state of Texas by the silver Rio Grande,
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strolled a couple out one evening, was two sweethearts hand in hand.
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Was a rich man's pretty daughter and the lad she loved so dear,
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though tomorrow they must part for many a year.
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My heart's tonight in Texas, though I'm far across the sea,
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the band is playing "Dixie" and there's where I long to be.
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Dad says an earl I'll marry but although here is my hand,
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my heart's tonight in Texas by the silver Rio Grande.
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To Europe she was going to become a lady grand,
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where her father hopes an earl, of course, she'll wed,
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but she went away next morning and her heart was true to Jack,
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for a letter came one day and this it read :
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At a stately ball in England stood the Texas lad one night,
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the scenes were splendid and the lights were dazzling bright.
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It was there the earl knelt beside her asking her to be his bride,
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but her thoughts were by the silver Rio Grande.
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