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[Verse 1]
Isabel and her brown skin shined like a sapphire in the summer sun
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The pride and joy of a Mexican lawman who lived by the 
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gun
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He got cross ways with the cartel they shot down his 
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only son Jose
       
So in fear of his daughter's life he 
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packed their bags and late one night she heard him say
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[Chorus]
     
I hear the grass is 
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greener just beyond that Laredo border line
         
They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood
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 red sangria wine
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South Texas looks like heaven when 
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you're down here in this living hell
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So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast 
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is clear Isabel
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The coast is clear Isabel
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[Verse 2]
      
They came across our homestead 
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tired and hungry, cold and moving slow
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We had fence to build a warm place to stay and 
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they had nowhere to go
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So I worked cattle with her father we were stretching 
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wire and driving post all day
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While Isabel worked with my mother and late at night I 
held her tight and she'd take my breath away

[Chorus]
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I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo 
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border line
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They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood red 
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sangria wine
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South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in 
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this living hell
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So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear 
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Isabel
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The coast is clear Isabel

[Solo]
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[Verse 3]
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The sheriff came across her father they treated him 
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like an outlaw on the run
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And Isabel now wears my diamond and that little boy she
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 holds is my son
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We got a green card for her father Mariano but it came 
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two years too late
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We got word that he'd been gunned down in a border town
 
 shot in the back
The last thing they heard him say

[Outro]
  
I hear 
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the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border 
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line
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And they say that freedom is much sweeter than sweet 
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blood red sangria wine
       
South Texas looks like heaven when 
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you're down here in this living hell
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So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast 
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is clear Isabel
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The coast is clear Isabel
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The coast is clear Isabel
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Clear Isabel
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Clear Isabel