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                                                                                                This a song about best friends 
 
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John Roy was boy I knew, since he was three and I was two 
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Grew up two little houses down from me 
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The only two bad apples on our family tree, kind of ripened and rotted in our puberty 
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Two kindred spirits    bound by destiny 
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Well I was smart but I lacked ambition  
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Johnny was wild with no inhibition 
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Was about like mixing fire and gasoline and he?d say 
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Hey, Romeo lets go down to Mexico chase senoritas drink ourselves silly  
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Show them Mexican girls a couple real hillbillies 
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Got a pocket full of cash and an old ford truck,  
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Fuzzy can hanging from the mirror for luck 
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Said don?t you know all those little brown-eyed girls  
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                                  Want playboys of the southwestern world 2. C   G D
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Long around our eighteenth year we found two airplane tickets the hell outta here 
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Got scholarships to some small town school in Texas 
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We learned to drink sangrias ?till the dawns early light 
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Eat eggs ranchero and throw up all night 
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And tell those daddys girls we were majorin? in a rodeo 
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Ah, but my favorite memory of school that fall 
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Was the night John Roy came running down the hall 
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Wearin? nothing but cowboy boots and a big sombrero and he was yellin? 
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And I said we had a little change in plans like when Paul McCartney got busted in japan 
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And I said we got waylaid when we set foot on Mexican    soil  
                                                                                                               
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You see the border guard with a Fu Manchu mustache  
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Kind of stumbled on John?s pocket full of American cash  
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He said    doing a little funny business in Mexico amigo 
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But all I could think about was saving my own tail 
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When he mentioned ten years in a Mexican jail 
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So I pointed at John Roy and said it?s all his now please let me go 
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I mean it was your idea genius I was just laying in bed when you said 
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3.  Playboys of the southwestern world 
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Ah, we?re still best friends,     temporary cellmates  
 
Outro: Beginning riff