I've Got A Go Back To Texas 1916

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Nov 2006
2006

Far away out west in Texas
by The Rio Grande,
there's a ranch of many acres
on the prairie land,
and I want you to be knowing
that's exactly where I'm going.
In just a day or so
you'll see a satchel in my hand.

I got a go back
I got a go back
I got a go back to dear old Texas
to the ranch I left behind,
and the girl who's on my mind.
I couldn't remain,
I'm taking a train,
the Southern Pacific bound for Texas,
I'm simply aching to skeedaddle
upon a horse without a sadle,
and ev'ry letter that I get from Texas
is covered with a lot of X's
I got a go back,
I got a go back
to the girl I left behind.

I got a go back
I got a go back
I got a go back to dear old Texas
to the ranch I left behind,
and the girl who's on my mind.
I couldn't remain,
I'm taking a train,
the Southern Pacific bound for Texas,
I'm simply aching to skeedaddle
upon a horse without a sadle,
and ev'ry letter that I get from Texas
is covered with a lot of X's
I got a go back,
I got a go back
to the girl I left behind.

Where the western sun is blazing
by The Rio Grande,
I can see the cattle grazing
on the prairie land.
And it fills me with a yearning
that I ought to be returning;
if you were ever there,
I'm pretty sure, you'd understand.

I got a go back
I got a go back
I got a go back to dear old Texas
to the ranch I left behind,
and the girl who's on my mind.
I couldn't remain,
I'm taking a train,
the Southern Pacific bound for Texas,
I'm simply aching to skeedaddle
upon a horse without a sadle,
and ev'ry letter that I get from Texas
is covered with a lot of X's
I got a go back,
I got a go back
to the girl I left behind.

I got a go back
I got a go back
I got a go back to dear old Texas
to the ranch I left behind,
and the girl who's on my mind.
I couldn't remain,
I'm taking a train,
the Southern Pacific bound for Texas,
I'm simply aching to skeedaddle
upon a horse without a sadle,
and ev'ry letter that I get from Texas
is covered with a lot of X's
I got a go back,
I got a go back
to the girl I left behind.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano
piano
piano
piano
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I've Got A Go Back To Texas 1916
respectfully dedicated to Miss Madeleine Cochrane
Words & Music by Irving Berlin
© MCMXVI by Irving Berlin Inc.  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 22 November 2006 at 4.35pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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