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In the 1960's, in a small West Texas college town of Alpine Sul Ross State, was known for cowboys and rodeo teams Had an above average student there, that wanted to be a cop With a dream to throw all the crooks in jail, make them walk the line He always wore a white hat in his dreams And what he was headed for was, "the cream of the crop" His name is Rick Thompson, I went to school with the guy At first a university cop, then to the city police force But deep down inside, money was his need With all the energy in the world and a lot of try The old western type of lawman, cowboy and horse Until his down fall, because of his greed Then went next door, to Marfa another little cow town Right on the Mexican border, a drug smuggler's paradise They need a new sheriff, the Marshal Dillon kind Won every election,hands down Wore a cowboy hat, but then he rolled the Devil's dice He liked that cocaine money and what it could do for his mind Was voted number one sheriff in Texas, everyone liked Old Rick The Mafioso did too, they needed his protection "Why he was ranch raised, just an old cowboy" But all of that dirty money, he fell for the Devil's trick Lost his fancy star, got him headed in a new direction Found out just what it cost to be a "Cocaine Cowboy" Got caught red handed with a TON OF COCAINE Back of a horse trailer, street value of 43 million He lost it all and sold his soul A good cop gone bad and caused a lot of pain Lost the white hat, the halo and the image of Marshal Dillon Now in a Federal Pen somewhere...doing life without parole
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