[Intro]

[Verse 1]

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Isabel and her brown skin shined like a sapphire in the summer sun

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The pride and joy of a Mexican lawman who lived by the gun

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He got cross ways with the cartel they shot down his only son Jose

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So in fear of his daughter's life he packed their bags and late one night she

heard him say

[Chorus]

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I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line

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They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood red sangria wine

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South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell

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So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel

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The coast is clear Isabel

[Verse 2]

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They came across our homestead tired and hungry, cold and moving slow

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We had fence to build a warm place to stay and they had nowhere to go

 

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So I worked cattle with her father we were stretching wire and driving post

     G                

all day

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While Isabel worked with my mother and late at night I held her tight and

                 

she'd take my breath away