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[Verse 1]
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I remember how the wind burned, my-y face and my hands
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I remember how the dust rose, so-o far above the land
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I remember how my momma cried when I-i saddled up to go...
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My father told me "Son just be a man"
[Verse 2]
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I have seen the trail alive, a massive swarm of black and brown
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With a mile-wide of nothing left be-hind it on the ground
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I've heard their lonesome be-low, and the rattle of their horns...
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And night guards singin' songs to Mary-Ann
[Chorus]
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Oh the trail, took me away
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The trail, took me away
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In the years that followed how I cursed that day...
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That the trail, took me away
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Like a drunkard with his bottle, no drug was quite that strong
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The trail reached out and hooked me, drug me on for so-o long
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I've ridden through them canyons, where the water never flows...
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and I've rolled my bed upon the shifting sands
[Chorus]
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Oh the trail, took me away
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The trail, took me away
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In the years that followed how I cursed that day...
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That the trail, took me away
[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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Now I stand upon your city streets so-o bleary-eyed and old
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(With) Newsprint stuffed in-side my shirt, to keep away the cold
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(E)-Even if I could, I would not change a thing...
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Though few of you would e...ver understand
[Chorus]
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How the trail, took me away
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The trail, took me away
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In the years that followed how I cursed that day...
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That the trail, took me away
[Coda]
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The trail, took me away
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In the years that followed how I cursed that day...
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That the trail, took me away
[Outro]
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