C [Verse 1] Down in the scrub oak country F C To the South East Texas Gulf C There used to ride a brakeman Dm G A brakeman double tough C He worked the town of Kilgore F C And Longview, twelve miles down F Am And the travellers all said, little East Texas Red G C Was the meanest bull around [Verse] C If you rode by night or the broad daylight F C Or the wintry wind or the sun C You could always see little East Texas Red Dm G A-sporting his smooth running gun C And the tail got switched down the stems and mains F C And everybody said F Am That the meanest bull on them shiny irons G C Was little East Texas Red [Verse] C It was on a cold and a windy old night F C And along towards nine or ten C A couple of boys on the hunt of a job Dm G They stood in that blizzardry wind C They were hungry and cold and they knocked on the doors F C Of the working people around F Am For a piece of meat or a carrot or spud G C Just to boil the stew around [Verse] C Well, East Texas Red comes down the line F C And he swung off that old Number Two C He kicked their bucket over a bush Dm G And he dumped out all of their stew C And the travellers said, "Little East Texas Red F C You better get your business straight F Am 'Cause you're gonna ride the little black train G C Just one year from today" [Verse] C Well, Red he laughed and he climbs on the bank F C And he swings off the side of a wheeler C And the boys caught a tanker to Seminole Dm G Then west to Amarillo C And they caught 'em a job of oil field work F C And they followed the pipeline down F Am It took 'em a lot of places before G C The year had rolled around [Verse] C Then on a cold and a windy morning F C They caught 'em a Gulf bound train C They shivered and shook with the dough in their clothes Dm G To the scrub oak flats again C With their warm suit of clothes and their overcoats on F C They walked into a store F Am They paid the man for some meat and stuff G C To boil the stew once more [Verse] C The ties they tracked down that cinder dump F C 'Til they came to the same old spot C Where East Texas Red, just one year ago Dm G Had dumped their last stew pot [Verse] C Well, the smoke of their fire rose higher and higher F C And old Red come down the line C With his head down low in the wintry wind Dm G He waved old Number nine C And he walks on down to the jumble yard F C Then he comes to the same old spot F Am And there was the same two men again G C Around that same stew pot [Verse] C Red went to his knees and he hollered, "Please, F C Don't you pull your trigger on me C I did not get my business straight" Dm G But he did not get a say C 'Cause a gun wheeled out of an overcoat F C And it played that old one-two F Am And Red was dead when the other two men G C Sat down to eat their stew
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