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Gonna runaway to Tucumcari
Make camp where the land is bare
Gonna runaway to Tucumcari
Ain't no one gonna find me there

Found trouble in the town I come from
Left six months ago or so
Had to run from the men I wronged there
With no aim as to where to go

I'm told that the law ain't there yet
And the ones who tried are dead
But if the lawmen come to find me
I'll make that river red
I'll make that river red

Gonna runaway to Tucumcari
Kick dust up the riverbed
In the shadow of the Spanish Fortress
I'll lay my weary head

To an indian girl I'll marry
On a calico horse we'll ride
Won't leave until I'm dead and buried
With the silver in the mountainside

Gonna runaway to Tucumcari
Kick dust up the riverbed
In the shadow of the Spanish Fortress
I'll lay my weary head

To an indian girl I'll marry
On a calico horse we'll ride
Won't leave until I'm dead and buried
With the silver in the mountainside

Gonna runaway to Tucumcari
Make camp where the land is bare
Gonna runaway to Tucumcari
Ain't no one gonna find me

c. 2018 Goodnight, Texas - Seriously Serious Songs (ASCAP) / Porch Couch Songs (ASCAP)

Appears on the 2018 album “Conductor”
Recorded by Goodnight, Texas
Mixed by Scott McDowell
Mastered by Jonathan Kirchner

We have been to Tucumcari several times and asked locals and those we spoke to insist they pronounce it “Took ‘em Carry”. Not like Two but more like Book.