| I left my home and family
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| To seek my fortune fair
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| I went north into the city
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| But I didn’t find it there
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| Met a million women
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| No two were the same
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| If I had only met the one
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| That I’d let have my name
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| All alone on a lonesome, desert highway
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| My best laid plans had failed
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| I put my face in a woman
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| And I wound up in jail
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| Love, she was a-holding
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| And I chose to take the blame
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| I was in and she was gone
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| But loved her just the same
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| (solos)
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| I’ve seen a lot of country
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| And I moved from place to place
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| I don’t remember names
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| But I can’t forget her face
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| It’s not a place that I been to
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| That I could call my home
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| An' I can’t hope to settle down,
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| Down seems I’m meant to roam
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| All those years spent searching for something
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| Goin' around the bend
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| All I ever wanted
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| Was to see her again, yeah
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| (solos)
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| On a go for California
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| I slept out on the sand
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| I drove the coastal highways
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| I drive them all again
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| An' if you aim to find me
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| I’ll be out on the track
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| This maybe the last to seeing me
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| No, we won’t be coming back |