My Heart's Tonight In Texas

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    In the distant state of Texas by the silver Rio Grande,
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    strolled a couple out one evening, was two sweethearts hand in hand.
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    Was a rich man's pretty daughter and the lad she loved so dear,
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    though tomorrow they must part for many a year.

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My heart's tonight in Texas, though I'm far across the sea,
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the band is playing "Dixie" and there's where I long to be.
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Dad says an earl I'll marry but although here is my hand,
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my heart's tonight in Texas by the silver Rio Grande.

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    To Europe she was going to become a lady grand,
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    where her father hopes an earl, of course, she'll wed,
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    but she went away next morning and her heart was true to Jack,
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    for a letter came one day and this it read :

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My heart's tonight in Texas, though I'm far across the sea,
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the band is playing "Dixie" and there's where I long to be.
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Dad says an earl I'll marry but although here is my hand,
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my heart's tonight in Texas by the silver Rio Grande.

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    At a stately ball in England stood the Texas lad one night,
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    the scenes were splendid and the lights were dazzling bright.
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    It was there the earl knelt beside her asking her to be his bride,
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    but her thoughts were by the silver Rio Grande.

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My heart's tonight in Texas, though I'm far across the sea,
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the band is playing "Dixie" and there's where I long to be.
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Dad says an earl I'll marry but although here is my hand,
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my heart's tonight in Texas by the silver Rio Grande.