Big Twenty
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chorus: Move along big twenty, big twenty move along- you’ve got a master
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and you’ve got a home.
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Move along big twenty big twenty move along- you’ve got the muscle
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and you’ve got the bone.
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1.Went out on the Mojave with a twenty mule team, ten tons of borax and a
muleskinner’s dream.
We’ll soon be a-winin’ and a-dinin’ I know, with a cute little filly in the
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town of Reno.
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2.The Apaches are restless there’s smoke in the sky. But I’m too old for
scalpin’ and I’m too young to die.
But they’ll soon be around us like ants on a hill- bringin’ this
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muleskinner up for the kill.
(Here’s where I can’t remember much)
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3.My mules started runnin’___-___-____-___-____
___-____-_____-____-____ bring big twenty down;
But we’re still a-livin’ so the story can be told-
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How I traded that borax for Apache gold.