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Tucumcari Lyrics By Jimmie Rodgers

    twelve more miles to tucumcari
    i’ve been hurrying there
    to the gal i’m gonna marry
    with the yellowest hair

    left right march along
    i’ve just gotta get home just gotta get home
    ten more miles to tucumcari
    then i’ll never more roam
    tucumcari tucumcari i just gotta get home

    eight more miles to tucumcari
    it’s the fourth of july
    been three years in january
    since i kissed her goodbye

    left right march along
    i’ve just gotta get home just gotta get home
    six more miles to tucumcari
    then i’ll never more roam
    tucumcari tucumcari i just gotta get home

    four more miles to tucumcari
    not much further to go
    got no time to waste or tarry
    she’ll be waitin’ i know

    left right march along
    i’ve just gotta get home just gotta get home
    two more miles to tucumcari
    then i’ll never more roam
    tucumcari tucumcari i just gotta get home

    here i am in tucumcari
    found my yellowhaired gal
    just in time to see her marry
    with my very best pal

    left right march along
    guess i better be gone i better be gone
    a thousand miles from tucumcari
    i’ll be rambling on
    tucumcari tucumcari i’ll be rambling on

    a hundred miles from tucumcari
    down in santa fe
    fell in love with a girl named mary
    gee i’m happy today

    no more marching now
    found my honeycomb found my honeycomb
    i’ve forgotten tucumcari
    no more reason to roam
    tucumcari tucumcari
    i’ve forgotten tucumcari
    no more reason to roooaaaammmmm

    above and are for personal use and research interest only

    Artist: Jimmie Rodgers

    Year: 1959

    Decade: 50s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 162