Mandarin Oranges

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[Verse 1]
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At a table in Juarez a woman named Dolores is drinking
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I see the tear in her eye and I like to pretend what she's thinking
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She's dreaming of Goimar and a cottage for two by the sea
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And mandarin oranges and Mexican lemongrass tea


[Verse 2]
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I married Dolores twenty-one years ago, Sunday
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And Dolores she left me twenty-one years ago, Monday
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I remember the laughter and the last midnight feast by the sea
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Of mandarin oranges and Mexican lemongrass tea


[Bridge]
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And I think of her often, my friends ask what she means to me
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I say, mandarin oranges and Mexican lemongrass tea


[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Back here in Juarez, I work at my job, waiting tables
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And I long to go speak to her, somehow I don't think I'm able
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But afraid she will know me as I ask her, what shall it be
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She smiles, mandarin oranges and Mexican lemongrass tea


[Bridge]
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We should return to Goimar and the cottage for two by the sea
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And the mandarin oranges and Mexican lemongrass tea