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Jessie went away last summer,
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a couple of months ago

After all our time together,
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it was hard to see her go

She called me right up when she arrived,
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asked me one more time to come

but livin' on an L.A. freeway
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ain't my kind of havin' fun (Chorus)
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  I think I'd rather be a cowboy
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  I think I'd rather ride the range
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  I think I'd rather be a cowboy
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than to lay me down in love in lady's chains (Verse 2)
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When we were just beginning,
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it was such an easy way

layin' back up in the mountains,
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singin' songs for sunny days  (but she got)

tired of pickin' daisies
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and cookin' my meals for me

She can live the life she wants to, yes,
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and it's all right with me   (to chorus) (Interlude)
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  I'd rather live on the side of a mountain
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  than wander through canyons of concrete and steel
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  I'd rather laugh with the rain and sunshine
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and lay down my sundown in some starry field (Verse 3)
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Oh but I miss her in the morning
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when I awake alone

and the absence of her laughter
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is a cold and empty sound

But her memory always makes me smile
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and I want you to know

I love her, yes I love her
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just enough to let her go    (to chorus)