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Verse 1
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She buried
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him down on the edge of town
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Where the brick load suckers
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She stood with them children
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What you want,
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you just can't always keep
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I'm sorry, I says, well,
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Though your body's young,
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When the hand of fate
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brings the final death knell
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She just turned with the saddest smiles
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She says at the start, well,
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We were always dealt the severest cards
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Honeymoon spent, drove in jammers
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and stocked through the wild this win ter,
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Ro mantic notions of
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horses and lamb,
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they were soon dispelled
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As a fantasized dream,
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watching cattle at night
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In the midwinter cold,
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turns a person both wiry and older
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And the flame of the breakfast fire
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As the sun rose up,
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I'd be breakin' the camp there
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and rollin' the beds
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While he fanned the stock wide at the feeder
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When the weather turned sour
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The truck would bog down
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to the axle mains
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He'd move ahead with pikes,
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saddles, and chains
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And I'd wait in the mud by the road
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With the blankets and
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canvas they hung out
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But nothing for heat,
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cause you couldn't light a fire
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With no stop per mit
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for the forthcoming shire
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The dogs would whimper
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in the winter wind rain
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And carols don't camp
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when they're sloshing in rain
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You keep walking all night
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like a dog on a chain
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You'd be red -eyed and weary
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with a pack of scorned lame
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while I'm sitting miles
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behind in the mud
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And if it was down through Charleville
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Living on syrup and damper
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and salted cornmeat
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We had nothing but the ruse
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and the mailman to meet
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We'd move up and down with the ranger
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But the middling skies
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of the starriest of nights
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Were the dance of the fire
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-throwing flicker of light
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The beauty of its sunsets
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were a constant delight
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I found nature had let me intrude it
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The enormous vastness
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Gives you a lonely contentment
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for which you can't put a name
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city folks seldom attain
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They spend life on a right rigid rail
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And the kids got their schooling
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from the government mail
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He posted there working
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They con sidered the learning
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They'd rather help their father and pal
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Early last month at the end of the grind
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He was given a horse nobody could ride
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Alert were his ears
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with a fire in each stride
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He was young and his spirit was wild
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To catch him each mornin'
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was an hour -long battle
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He had to call a rope his nearside
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He'd bite and he'd strike,
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he made my nerves rattle
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Pande monium reigned with each ride
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There was a hot summer's mornin'
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There was stillness around
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I'd not felt before
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How could he know
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it was fate at his door
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That was stealthily watchin' his moves
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He mounted up quick,
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takin' slack from the reins
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Crossed the forehand of here
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from the horse's long mane
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when the horse went insane
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Churning dust in a frenzy of fear
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And the girth on the saddle
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let go at the ring
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And the sir's single slip
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was impossible to cling
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The horse fell it go,
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He was thrown to the length of the re ins
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I heard his spine snap
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like a room shooter's shot
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He bus ted his back on
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the concrete he dropped
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Sickness and fear were
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For the doctor with a six
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Well, I looked at his face
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and his color turned white
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Turned slowly and said,
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can't make it till night
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My body is broken.
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and the life slowly drained his eyes
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and I'll move here to town
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Before the winter returns
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with a chill on the ground
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For what I just lost can
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I was blessed with the gentlest of men
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And eventually the children
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But I couldn't stand the bustle
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Even a quiet city street
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I'll stay in the scrub here
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Where my heart really beats
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For some dogs grow too old for changin'
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Verse 2
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we are the leaders
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We are the leaders,
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we are the leaders
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