One is for sorrow
Two is for joy
Three is for girls
And four is for boys

She crossed herself when she seen a crow
Superstition, I left her in the pines and the snow
But superstition ain't why I left that girl behind
More a reductive scientism simultaneously occupying her ontology
I don't know why

One, two, three, One, two, three

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Texas hold me I'm going blind
I'm dragging behind the wheels of time
Texas hold me I'm going dumb
I have bitten my tongue, that's where the blood come from
I don't know why

Her little heart's beating
She don't know where I go
I'm headed to Texas
After that I don't know

Her green grey eyes
Her translucent hand
Beckon to me from a translucent land
I don't know why
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Now I sit waiting for that fateful train
Reading De Maupassant in the early spring rain
His characters are good though a little bit flat
Then again so am I in my white cowboy hat
I don't know why

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