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2012**lf**Writers: Public Domain, Manfred Greissel.**lf****lf**From this valley they say you are going**lf**I shall miss your bright eyes and sweet smile**lf**They say you''re taking the sunshine**lf**That has brightened our pathway awhile**lf****lf**Come and sit by my side if you love me**lf**Do not hasten to bid me adieu**lf**But remember the Red River Valley**lf**And the cowboy who loves you so true**lf****lf**Been thinking a long time, my darling**lf**Of those sweet words you never would say**lf**Now, alas, all my fond hopes have vanished**lf**They say you are going away**lf****lf**Shall the vowes of the past all be slighted**lf**By a future of sorrow and pain**lf**Shall the vowes of the past all be blighted**lf**Don''t you think you might love me again**lf****lf**Come and sit by my side if you love me**lf**Do not hasten to bid me adieu**lf**Just remember the Red River Valley**lf**And the cowboy who loves you so true**lf****lf**There was a hole called Red''s Saloon in old Lavaca town**lf**And there was an old piano there that was blisterred, marred, and brown**lf**And there was a man more battered still**lf**Takin'' drinks for fees as he played all night from memory over the yellow keys**lf****lf**Whirl of a wheel, slap of the cards, talk of lose and gain**lf**Mixed with the sound of honey bees down the sunny lane**lf**Glimpses of a mother''s face, the touch of girlish lips**lf**Often made you loose your place as you stacked your chips**lf****lf**And for days and days, you''d hum just one little scrap of tune**lf**Funny place for music down in Red''s Saloon**lf****lf**Come and sit by my side if you love me**lf**Do not hasten to bid me adieu**lf**Just remember the Red River Valley**lf**And the cowboy who loves you so true**lf**And the cowboy who loves you so true**lf****lf**We must never let''em take this life away**lf**Old stock routes belong to one and all**lf**Drovers, dreamers all agree, poets, aborigines**lf**We have a right to light a campfire on the road**lf**We have a right to light a campfire on the road