Tomb Of The Unknown Love
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Tomb Of The Unknown Love
Recorded by Kenny Rogers
Written by Michael Smotherman

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One time I drove to see a girl across the country
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One night as I was driving through New Mexico
                     
I had the windows wide open it was cold and I was crying
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And I laid her letter on the radio

   
Then I stopped outside of Tahoe through this tiny mining town
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At a diner to refill for the ride
                                     
And in the wind I heard this crying like a heart broke right in two
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I turned my collar up and went inside

                  
Well I saw this smiling waitress joshing friendly with these truckers
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They’d give her pats and she’d give them shoves
 
I said miss what’s that awful crying everybody laughed and said
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It’s the tomb of the unknown love

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And then they pointed out the window to this stone
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All by itself beneath the tree beside the hill
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And on that winter night I read these words alone
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These words that are haunting me still it said

C
Here lies a young man struck down in his prime
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By the awesome burning power of love
                   
He couldn’t stand this true love cheating so he shot the girl down
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They hung him from that tree up above
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I know that local folks say it’s the wind
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I know it’s crying from the tomb of the unknown love


So I drove on to my destination
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I did the job my heart commanded of me
                     
And when the sheriff sirens came I didn’t even try to fight
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They counted ten I came out at three


So now I guess tomorrow morning warden reads some kind of paper
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How I’m gonna pay the state for what I’ve done
               
Hey then they’ll put the shackles on me and we’ll take a little walk
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They won’t have to drag me cause it’s said and done

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And maybe someday they can put me up a stone
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All by itself beneath the tree beside the hill
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And lovers everywhere can come and read along
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These words that will give them a chill and it’ll say

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