Lonesome Rider

Album: Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies (2013)
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  • Rita, where have you gone?
    I've been missing you for far too long
    I feel so blue, haven't you heard?
    I am the lonesome rider
    Hear the lonesome rider's call home

    Reaper, where have you gone?
    See the lonesome rider carry on
    His pain's so blue, haven't you heard?
    He is the lonesome rider
    It's the lonesome rider's call home

    Just feel all the love I'm giving you
    I'm back from the war, I've been missing you
    Where have you gone, my baby blue?
    I'm here all alone, I've been bleeding too

    Reaper, please take him home
    He's been wandering for far too long
    He feels so blue, haven't you heard?
    He is the lonesome rider
    It's the lonesome rider's call home

    Just feel all the love I'm giving you
    I'm back from the war, I've been missing you
    Where have you gone, my baby blue?
    I'm here all alone, I've been bleeding too

    The dark reaper led the cowboy ahead
    Into his final sunset
    The dawn soon to come, a cold wind will blow
    He's on his way home

    My love, never will we be apart
    And we'll feel the sadness peeling from our fate
    The day has now come where we belong together again
    Farewell, so long

    Rita, I'm not alone
    I can see you waiting in the doorway of our little cabin home
    I feel so new, haven't you heard?
    I was the lonesome rider
    And the lonesome rider is home

    Just feel all the love I'm giving you
    I'm back from the war, I've been missing you
    Where have you gone, my baby blue?
    I'm here all alone, I've been bleeding too Writer/s: Michael Poulsen, Robert Caggiano
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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