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...well I left New York
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in nineteen forty-nine
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to go across the country
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without a dad-blamed dime
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Mon - tana in the cold cold fall
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I found my father in a gam - bling hall
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father father
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where have you been
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I've been out in the world
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since I was only ten
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don't worry about me
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if I should die of pleurisy
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cross the Mississippi
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cross the Tennessee
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cross the Niagara
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home I'll never be
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home in old Medora
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home in ol' Truckee
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Apalachicola
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home I'll never be
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for better or for worse
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or thick and thin
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like bein' married to the little poor man
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god loves me
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just like I love him
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I want you to do
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just the same for him
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all the worms eat away
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but don't worry
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watch the wind
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all the worms eat away
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but don't worry
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watch the wind
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all the worms eat away
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but don't worry
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watch the wind
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so I left Montana
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on an old freight train
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the night my father died
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in the cold cold rain
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home in old Medora
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home in ol' Truckee
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Apalachicola
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home I'll never be, home i'll never be, home I'll never be
