The Fool's Paradise-Tex Ritter

[ti:The Fool's Paradise] [ar:Tex Ritter] [al:The All time Greatest Country Artists-Tex Ritter-Vol. 21] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Fool's Paradise - Tex Ritter [00:08.38]As I write this letter to you darlin' [00:13.81] [00:15.64]I can't hold the teardrops from my eyes [00:21.65] [00:22.52]For at sundown I will lay a-dyin' [00:29.16] [00:29.91]At the door of the Fool's Paradise [00:37.34]Rode into this cattle town this mornin' [00:43.43] [00:44.33]Left my burro to check the market price [00:50.02] [00:51.36]And I walked into the nearest barroom [00:57.77] [00:58.60]They call it the Fool's Paradise [01:06.52]There the crowd was gay and girls were dancin' [01:12.36] [01:13.56]And the men were playin' cards and dice [01:19.93] [01:20.76]So I stepped up to the bar to join them [01:26.72] [01:28.59]What a grand place this Fool's Paradise [01:34.94] [01:35.52]It was then I showed to them your picture [01:41.47] [01:42.95]I passed it around once or twice [01:48.83] [01:49.67]Then a man insulted your sweet honour [01:56.00] [01:56.67]At the bar of the Fool's Paradise [02:03.88] [02:07.50]So I slapped his face and I told him I says [02:11.27]"You eat them words Mister [02:13.15]Or draw that's my advice" [02:16.39]And he said "Well somebody [02:17.82]Might get hurt inside [02:18.77]But I'll be glad to meet you [02:22.04]In the street at sundown [02:24.28] [02:26.38]At sundown in front of the Fool's Paradise" [02:30.92] [02:33.15]So goodbye my darlin' may God bless you [02:39.33] [02:41.02]I go to make this sacrifice [02:47.19] [02:48.02]And if ever you visit old Dodge City [02:56.79]Remember the Fool's Paradise