DADDY WAS A TEXAS RANGER (And My Mama was an Outlaw)

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CUT MY TEETH ON A SHINY TIN STAR AND A 44 MY DADDY KEPT IN HIS PATROL CAR DADDY WAS A MAN WHO STOOD FOR LAW AND ORDER MAMA KEPT A HIDE OUT JUST BELOW THE BORDER PEOPLE SAY I ALWAYS GOT MY WAY AS A CHILD DADDY KEPT ME STRAIGHT BUT MAMA LET ME RUN WILD NEVER HAD TO WORRY BOUT THE BULLIES AT SCHOOL THEY WERE ALL AFRAID OF WHAT MY MAMA MIGHT DO CHORUS DADDY WAS A TEXAS RANGER AND MY MAMA WAS AN OUTLAW I CAN TESTIFY WITH MY HAND HELD HIGH THERE IS POWER IN LOVE AND A GOD UP ABOVE LIKE LIGHTNIN' ROLLS AROUND WITH THUNDER YOU'D BE SURPRISED HOW THAT COUPLE GOT ALONG DADDY WAS A TEXAS RANGER AND MY MAMA WAS AN OUTLAW THEY FOUND ONE ANOTHER WHEN MAMA AND HER BROTHERS HAD ROBBED A BANK IN EL PASO MY DADDY ON THEIR TALE THEY SPLIT UP ON THE TRAIL HE CAUGHT UP WITH MY MAMA AT THE FORK IN THE RODE MAN SHE COULD SCRATCH HE THOUGHT HE'D CAUGHT A WILD CAT BUT HE SAID HE WASN'T LETTIN' HER GO TWO DAYS LATER A JUDGE IN EL DORADO CALLED EM MAN AND WIFE IN ARKANSAS LATE THAT SUMMER, UNDER TENT COVER GENERATOR PUMPIN' THE LIGHTS A LONG HAIRED CREATURE WHO CALLED HIMSELF A PREACHER SAID JESUS IS COMIN AND YOU'D BETTER GET RIGHT YOU'D BETTER GET RIGHT BRIDGE MAMA WAS CONVICTED RIGHT THERE OF HER SINS GOT THE STOLEN MONEY AND TURNED IT BACK IN NEXT THING YOU KNOW, HERE CAME ALL OF HER KIN AND THE WHOLE TOWN HAD A REVIVAL THEN CHORUS MY MAMA'S FINAL CHAPTER IS HAPPY EVER AFTER ALL TRIALS AND TROUBLES COME TO AN END HER BROTHERS SLIM AND BO HAVE FOUND THE LORD YOU KNOW THEY'RE CALLED AS MISSIONSARIES TO THE TEXAS STATE PEN MAMA'S ON PROBATION ANE SHE HAS TO REPORT TO DADDY EVERY EVENIN' THAT'S THE LAW OF THE COURT DADDY HELPS AT HOME AND GOES TO CHURH WITH HIS SPOUSE THERE'S NO SENSE TELLIN YOU WHO LAYS THE LAW DOWN IN THE HOUSE CHORUS TAG DADDY WAS A TEXAS RANGER AND MY MAMA WAS AN OUTLAW=