Name: Laredo
Duration: P00H03M22S
Description: I was gonna write a song about Climax, NC (thanks for cumming!) and ended up with a murder ballad about Laredo, TX. It's not my best work, but it's all I had time for this week.

J. Dale Walker - Laredo

from Round 27, Week 4 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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I was gonna write a song about Climax, NC (thanks for cumming!) and ended up with a murder ballad about Laredo, TX. It's not my best work, but it's all I had time for this week.

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Sixteen hours and the road is blurred
Roll down 35 without a word
AC went out cross the railroad track
Texas heat with the law on my back

Forget me nots on the radio
Rolling down south head to Mexico
Left my whole life and all that I know
95 miles until Laredo

No, I don’t regret the wrong I done
Righted that wrong with granddaddy’s gun
Laid low my wife and her lover too
Burned away rage with a barrel plume

Forget me nots on the radio
Rolling down south head to Mexico
Left my whole life and all that I know
65 miles until Laredo

The lawman closes my prospects bleak
Baring down bead of sweat on my cheek
Ain’t gon’ make it married to this ride
Come nighttime find a place I can hide

Forget me nots on the radio
Rolling down south head to Mexico
Left my whole life and all that I know
35 miles until Laredo

Nighttime came and I ran for my life
Then came justice for him and my wife
Shots rang out they got caught in my back
Got so close now I’m fading to black

Forget me nots on the radio
Rolling down south was the way to go
Smoked my wife ain’t got nothin to show
Ain’t gonna make it to Laredo

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from Round 27, Week 4, released April 20, 2020

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