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2006**lf**Writer: Michael Martin Murphey**lf****lf**There was snow on the Spanish peaks that mroning**lf**Summer time was comin'' to an end**lf**I took a long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**To try to say goodbye to my old friend**lf****lf**He was happy drawin'' wages as a cowboy**lf**And he lightened up our camp fire with his song**lf**He took a long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**When the grass turned brown and fall was coming on**lf****lf**Oh, that long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**When its time to bring summer cattle down**lf**Board up the shack, blow out the candle**lf**Get on down to hoof and handle**lf**Time to gettin'' down to winter ground**lf****lf**Took a long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**I thought about the way he lost his life**lf**He was workin'' over in a Kansas field out**lf**When he left behind three children and a wife**lf****lf**Nobody knows exactly how it happened**lf**He was all alone when that big horse went down**lf**He took a long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**When his partners brought him home to winter ground**lf****lf**Oh, that long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**When its time to bring summer cattle down**lf**Board up the shack, blow out the candle**lf**Get on down to hoof and handle**lf**Time to gettin'' down to winter ground**lf****lf**Instrumental**lf****lf**I took a long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**There were hundreds at the church when I got there**lf**Six strong cowboys with long black coats and black hats**lf**Walkin'' slowly as the fiddler played an err**lf****lf**Then, the preacher said, ''This young man just changed horses.**lf**And now he rides a white horse for the Lord**lf**He took a long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**But he kept on ride til he crossed the Jordan ford.''**lf****lf**Oh, that long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**For its time to bring summer cattle down**lf**Board up the shack, blow out the candle**lf**Get on down to hoof and handle**lf**Its time to gettin'' down to winter ground**lf****lf**Oh, that long and lonesome ride to Dalhart**lf**When its time to bring summer cattle down**lf**Board up the shack, blow out the candle**lf**Get on down to hoof and handle**lf**Time to gettin'' down to winter ground**lf**Time to gettin'' down to winter ground