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From “Wine Over Matter” by Pinto Bennett and Baxter Black. © 1983 by Motel Cowboys, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

From “Leavin’ on Your Mind” by Webb Pierce and Wayne Walker. © 1962 by Cedarwood Publishing Company (A Division of Musiplex Group, Inc.). All rights reserved. Used by permission.

From “You Are My Sunshine” by Jimmy Davis and Charles Mitchell. © 1940 by Peer International Corporation. Copyright renewed assigned to Peer International Corporation. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

From “It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To” by J. Gluck, W. Gold, and H. Weiner. © 1963 by Arch Music Co., Inc., and World Song Publ. Inc. All rights administered by Chappell & Co. Inc. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

From “Echo of an Old Man’s Last Ride” and “Hole in My Life” by Bruce Hauser. © 1980 by Up the Creek Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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Originally published in New York in 1988 by Henry Holt and Company.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sandlin, Tim.

Western swing : a novel / Tim Sandlin.

p. cm.

1. Authors—Fiction. 2. Women country musicians—Fiction. 3. Married people—Fiction. 4. Marital conflict—Fiction. 5. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Fiction. 6. Wyoming—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.A517W47 2011

813’.54—dc22

2010051764