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A young man driving down a dusty road
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Like he's got somewhere to go
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Driving like he's got a desti-nation
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Like he's got somewhere to go in that beat-up Ford.
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See, there was a time when he was a young lost soul
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He was chasing butterflies and rainbows
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Til one day when he found his pot of gold
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And the words of a young man who turned old.
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The old man said,
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"You've gotta have a good imagination,
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If you're gonna live the life of old",
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He said, "you got to drive that Ford like it's a stallion,
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And you got to wear your heart just like a gun."
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The old man said,
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The old man said.
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The boy walked D out with a new-found hero,
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Yeah, the boy, well he walked away a man,
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And he said to him-self that dusty day way down in Texas,
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Well, I'm never gonna walk this path again.
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The boy walked out he was dreaming of wild times,
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When old cowboys, they broke down cattle lines.
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But now all those fields are all but gone,
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His heart's still free and he rides on...
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The old man said
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The old man said
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The old man (big strum )} said.