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Robert Earl Keen - My New Life is WaitingAI crossed the Mississippi, turned sF#mouth at San Anton EA bowie knife, a woolen coat, a gDrip bag on my Aarm AIt's all somebody needs to mF#make it through the land EWalk the night, travel light, crDoss the Rio GArande F#mSomeone strums a mandolDin, sAoft gulf breezes blEow AMy new life is wDaiting in oEld MexiAco AI was once a married man F#mlivin' peacefully EHard to say exactly when the dDevil blinded mAe ABut there was some confusion when my sF#mweet wife left this world EDarker times, drunken crimes, a dDead young working gAirl F#mLeft a jailer there in CaDroline, watAching me from down Ebelow AMy new life is wDaiting in Eold MeAxico F#mLivin' in the sDhadows F#m Runnin' from my fDame BlAowin' where the wDind blows Where Dno one knows my nEame AIn the El Vaquero Bar in the F#mtown of Eagle Pass EMoments from my freedom warm Dwhiskey in my glAass ASome boracho took me for the maF#mn who stole his wife EHe went for his forty-four as DI reached for my kAnife F#mHe never fired a second Dshot he wasA just too slEow AMy new life is wDaiting in oEld MexAico AI hear of hidden harbors sF#mouth of Mazatlan WhereE cool spring mountain waters meet the warmD Pacific sAun AI pray the miles I've traveled and F#mall the sins I bear EBurn away like mornin' fog and vaDnish in the aiAr F#mMiles beyond the border nDow, but maAny miles to gEo AMy new life is Dwaiting in oEld MexAico AMy new life is Dwaiting in oEld MexAico