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Ballad of Dan Toe

The Big Wu
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Song

Ballad of Dan Toe
Intro:
Em-D-C-B--D
  
Come all you cowboys and hear what I say
    
The legend of Dan Toe still lives today
  
When I was a boy, I rode with a man
   
...and I still can remember what happened to Dan.
He knew the frontier from the east to the west
Wore a lone star of silver, proud on his chest
He wrestled a cyclone or so I am told
He proved he was brave in those days of old (?)
When the rivers of Texas grew dangerously high
We kept Dan a laugin for fear he would die
And his tears would surely flow
To the gulf of Mexico
CHORUS:
   
With a Navajo rug and a quart in his jug he would sing
  
I remember it well
   
A teacher of lessons his black Smith and Wesson would ring
 
Like a bell
  
At night he would dance the fandango
  
On the mesas outside of durango
 
The women would holler
 
And throw down a dollar
 
to drink from his well.
Jam
Dan told us stories before we'd retire
And spirits would dance round the flames of the fire
He told us of rednecks no long to have known
No long will those flickering campfires glown
Dan had a sweeheart who fear for his life
When a rattlesnake came between her and a knife
Dan Toe snuck up from behind her
And Danny took the bite from that ol' sidewinder
  
As the light of last sun faded from his eyes
  
She kept Dan a laughin for fear he would die
 
And his tears would surely flow
  
To the Gulf of Mexico
CHORUS
Jam
Dan's dead and gone and I'm growing old
And I never could save that silver and gold
But I still have my fiddle and I still have my bow
And I make myself (something) where ever I go
CHORUS
Jam->End
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