Old Coyote Town

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[Verse 1]
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He’s got a US flag on his front porch
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To remind everyone where he lives
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And up in the attic there are papers that prove
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The old house is finally his
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After thirty-five years the grass still don’t grow
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In that rock hard west Texas ground
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Where my old dad still clings to that old coyote
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town

[Chorus 1]
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Like horses the pick-ups are parked out in front
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Of a cafe that don’t need a name
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Where the old men rock and the tumbleweeds roll
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Past the boarded up windows down Main


[Verse 2]
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Waist high weeds hide a for sale sign
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At the drive-in where my innocence died
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With a rusty advertisement, dangling by a nail
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Says Popcorn and Pepsi for a dime
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And down at the depot where I left for good
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There’s a hobo with his three-legged hound
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Waitin' for a train, that no longer comes to that
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old coyote town


[Chorus 2]
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And the interstate rumbles like a river that runs
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To a rhythm that don’t ever slow down
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As cars and trucks, and time pass by
      Dm7          G
That old coyote town

[Verse 3]
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Daddy falls asleep in the living room
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On the sofa with the TV on

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Sometimes he waits for a phone call from me
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Sometimes he waits too long
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But I still think of the people and the place that
he loves
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How much longer will they be around
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Till its ashes to ashes, dust to dust
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For that old coyote town


[Chorus 1]
      Em                      F
Like horses the pick-ups are parked out in front
     Em                      F
Of a cafe that don't need a name
          Am7                    C/G
Where the old men rock and the tumbleweeds roll
          Dm7                       G
Past the boarded up windows down Main


[Chorus 2]
         Em                        F
And the interstate rumbles like a river that runs
      Em                          F
To a rhythm that don’t ever slow down
    Am7                   C/G
As cars and trucks, and time pass by
      F     G    C
That old coyote town
                F     G    C
God bless that old coyote town