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old man Henry brought Mary here
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To farm this land and make a life for her
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Now he says she waits for me
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right under that old tree
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My land's bought and paid for,
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that's my last word
In his ninety -seventh year,
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old man Henry had made it clear
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They could build their
damned highway
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somewhere else he wasn't about to go
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While around him his neighbors sold,
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Old Man Henry, he kept a hold.
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I'd see him kneeling in the evening,
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Now how you gonna buy that with gold?
They sent a group from City Hall,
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Old Man Henry stood up and met them all.
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Or standing by the gate
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that he'd built with his own two hands
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He said, I told you all before,
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now I'll tell you just one time more
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My land's bought and paid for,
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what don't you understand?
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The sheriff came out from town,
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Henry looked him straight up and down,
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and then shook his hand.
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Henry saw the deputies,
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the sheriff said, Henry, listen please,
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this ain't nothing personal,
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It's only business, Henry said,
Now the headlines, three inches tall,
said
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Henry fired up on them all
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I was just a kid eleven,
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but I know that's a lie
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For I'd been sittin' on a hill
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Far away but close enough still
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To hear what they were sayin'
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And see what they were doin'
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Cause I watched it with my
Twenty cars came out from town
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A two -room shack with a grave out
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back and an acre of ground
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Henry opened up his door
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to see what all the commotion was for
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When he reached down for
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I never heard such an awful sound
Forty rifles raised
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From forty men half crazed
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As the bullets struck all around him
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Henry's house it caught ablaze
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As the fatal bullets hit him,
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Henry fell across Mary's grave.
A man of ninety -seven years
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lay dead upon the ground.
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As his soul winged up to heaven,
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a gentle rain came down.
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Henry laid dead crosses, Mary
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Their little home a pile of ash
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Nothin' left but the memories
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They got your damned highway at last
Now the folks that speed on by
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Never once stopped, nor even asked why
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There's a sign by the highway
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right off the main road
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Very simply it only says
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This land was his
There's some things the
law can't change
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And a man just won't let go you
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