Tom: A
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I'm an old time saddle maker, South Florida is my home
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I've often wondered how I came to be
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With the snakes and the aligators, in a low lagubrious land
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I've never cared for high humidity
[Chorus]
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Oh but out in Colorado when I was but a lad
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Riding in them high and windy hills
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I met up with a horseman, and he said that his name was Link
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No stranger to them old vaquero skills
D E A
Well I wanted to learn them old vaquero skills
[Verse 2]
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Jack Link was the strangest feller, I'd known him sixteen years
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But none the less a cowboy through and through
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He'd rope a bronc and he'd pitch them coils and he'd dally in a wink
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There was nothing with a rope he could not do
[Chorus]
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And he taught me about leather, how to scott and stitch and stem
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Build saddles on the old committee tree
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But he also took my money, and he also took my car
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I guess you could say Jack educated me
D E A
In the ways of the world Jack educated me
[Break]
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[Verse 3]
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Fate turns her back on some men, and to some she gives it all
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To see who stands and who will run away
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I know Jack married seven times, he took to drinking hard
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But more than that I really cannot say
[Chorus]
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The trail ends in Arizona, in 1983
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With a bar and bet on a bronc that he could ride
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But he could not raise the thousand, in his anger and his shame
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In a cheap motel that night, Jack Link died
D E A
With a pistol to his forehead Jack Link died
[Break]
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[Chorus]
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The trail ends in Arizona, in 1983
D Bm
With a bar and bet on a bronc that he could ride
A E A A E A
But he could not raise the thousand, in his anger and his shame
A E A Bm
In a cheap motel that night, Jack Link died
D E A
With a pistol to his forehead Jack Link died
[Outro]
(Slowed)
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Jack Link was the strangest feller, that I have ever known
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