Don't Fence Me In Song Lyrics and Chords by Dave Dudley
Don't Fence Me In
Recorded by Dave Dudley
Written by Cole Porter
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Oh give me land lots of land
Under starry skies above don't fence me
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Let me ride through the wide open country
That I love don't fence me
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Let me be by myself in the evening
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breeze
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Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
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Send me out forever but I
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ask you
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please
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don't
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fence me
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Just turn me
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loose let me straddle my old
saddle underneath the western
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skies
On my
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cayuse let me wander over yonder till I see the mountain
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rise
I wanna ride to the ridge where the west
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Gaze at the moon until I lose my senses
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Can't look at hobbles and I
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can't stand
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fences
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don't
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fence me
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Don't Fence Me In?
- The song Don't Fence Me In was sang by Dave Dudley.
Who is Dave Dudley?
- Dave Dudley (born David Darwin Pedruska May 3, 1928 - December 12, 2003) was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass. His signature song was "Six Days on the Road", and he is also remembered for "Vietnam Blues", "Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun", and "Me and ol' C.B.". Other recordings included Dudley's duet with Tom T. Hall, "Day Drinking", and his own Top 10 hit, "Fireball Rolled A Seven", supposedly based on the career and death of Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts.
