THE WIND WAS HOT AND THE SUN WAS HARD I WAS BEAT AND MY MARE WAS TIRED AND THE FENCE LINE I WAS RIDING STRETCHED FOREVER MY MIND DRIFTED OFF AND BACK TO CARMELLA AND HER HEART OF BLACK AND THE THINGS THAT SHE?D SAID TO ME YESTERDAY SO WHEN THE BOSS SENT ME OUT CHECKING FENCES I WAS GLAD CAUSE I KNEW THAT IT MEANT THAT I COULD SPEND SOME TIME OUT ALL ALONE I WIPED THE SWEAT THAT STUNG MY EYES LOOKED UP AND I REALIZED THAT I WAS COMING UP ON THE SOUTH WINDMILL THE CONCRETE TANK STOOD THERE BESIDE THE WATER TROUGH THAT IT SUPPLIED WHEN THE TROUGH WAS FULL THE MILL COULD KEEP ON PUMPING & PUMPING & PUMPING & PUMPING SO WE DRANK DEEP FROM THE SHALLOW TROUGH AND WETTING MY HAIR GAVE ME A THOUGHT THAT A SWIM IN THAT BIG TANK MIGHT COOL ME DOWN SO I SHUCKED MY DUDS AND HUNG ?EM ON THE FENCE CLIMBED THE WIRES TO REACH THE RIM PULLED MYSELF ON UP AND JUMPED RIGHT IN THE WATER WAS COOL DOWN UNDERNEATH BUT DEEPER THAN I THOUGHT IT?D BE THERE WAS NO LADDER AND THE WALLS WERE SLICK WITH MOSS SURE ENOUGH I GOT COOLED DOWN WHEN I FOUND I HAD NO WAY OUT AND THE THOUGHT OF A RAT IN A FEED BIN CHILLED MY BLOOD WELL, AT FIRST I LAUGHED AT THE FIX I WAS IN THEN MY TROUBLES ALL SANK IN WITHOUT SOME HELP I WAS THERE TO STAY I SCREAMED AND CLAWED TO NO AVAIL TILL DIGNITY AND VOICE HAD FAILED I WORE MY FINGERS DOWN ON THOSE DAMNED WALLS I MARKED THE TIME WITH THE WINDMILL?S SHADE PASSING CROSS MY MOSSY GRAVE AND THE COWS COMING TO WATER TWICE A DAY I ALWAYS FIGURED LIGHTNING STRIKE OR RATTLESNAKE OR BARROOM FIGHT WOULD DO ME IN, NOT SOME MEXICAN ROSE THE FACT IS I WAS HOT AND DUMB STRUCK STUPID BY THE SUN AND LOVE SO ON ONE HAND I GUESS SHE?D PLAYED HER PART THOUGH ALL THAT TIME I CUSSED HER LOTS BUT I CUSSED MYSELF THE MOST BECAUSE I HAD NOT LOOKED BEFORE I LEAPT NOW OVERHEAD AN EAGLE SOARS AND I SMELL RAIN COMING FROM THE NORTH I WONDER IF SHE?LL EVEN SHED ONE TEAR JUST ONE TEAR OVER ME JUST ONE TEAR OVER ME, OVER ME (There are fills/walkdowns at the intro and between the verses when it changes to different chords. I'm not tabbing them... you're on your own there.)
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