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"Texas, wide no limit, the
whole state and airport.

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A continent a continent
marbles could roll across.

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And they say when
the fist of the sun

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hammers it the natives love it,
feel they would die if moved.

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They have struggled
to stay and have won--

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a catastrophe.

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Now they deserve it,
a cruel thing to say.

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But true, but wide.

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I came on the Sweetwater once.

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It was the evening,
and the doves

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insisted they could
redeem all the universe.

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Never after that could I
deny a link with Texas.

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A farmer strikes oil
and stuffs his mattress

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with money like excelsior.

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At a space lab, they
look around and think,

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might as well try for the moon.

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And they get there.

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Long ago, the rest of the
country joined their state,

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and thus became, really,
the part of Mexico.

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Why contend?

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Joining is better and
is done in many ways,

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even if politicians have limits.

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I say join the state, and
Mexico, and the politicians.

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Beyond irony is the hard
country no one can misjudge--

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where we survive
our indulgences,

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and mean just the
earth again, Texas."

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