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At the foot of yon mountain, where the big river flows, there's
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a fond creation and a soft wind that blows.
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There lives a fair maiden, she's the one I adore. She's the one
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I will marry on the Red River shore.
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She wrote me a letter. She wrote it so kind and in that letter
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these words you will find.
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"Come back to me, darling, you're the one I adore. You're
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the one I will marry on the Red River shore.
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I jumped on my bronco and away I did ride
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to marry my true loveon the Red River side.
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But her pa knew the secret and with twenty and four
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come tofight this young cowboy on the Red River shore.
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I grabbed my six shooter, spun 'round and 'round 'til six men
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were wounded and seven were down.
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I can't fight an army of twenty and four
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when I'm bound for my true love on the Red River shore.
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At the foot of yon mountain, where the big river flows, there's
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a fond creation and a soft wind that blows.
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And there lives a fair maiden, she's the one I adore,
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but never will marry on the Red River shore