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 A New Jersey lady I knew long ago

 And she was a lady I say

 But she met a cowboy who rode on a rodeo

 And he stole her heart straight away

 The New Jersey lady she loved him so true

 Another love she never had

 But cowboys are lonesome and cowboys are blue

 And they make the ladies so sad

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Sing me a melody

  Sing me a blues

  Walk through the bottomland without no shoes

  The Brazos she's running scared

  She heard the news

  Walk through the bottomland without no shoes

 The New Jersey lady knew he loved her too

 And you know she tried to hold on

 But the rodeo life was the life that he knew

 He had to keep drifting along

She never married and she never would

 And all of the people they'd say

 The New Jersey lady she just ain't no good

 To follow a cowboy that way

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 The lady she'd sing him to sleep in the night

 And in the morning he'd go

She loved the darkness and hated the light

Along with that damn rodeo

 The New Jersey lady the day that he died

 She covered him over with clay

 And feeling the wind in the night as she cried

She heard the old cowboy say

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