| That old prairie wind is blowing
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| I can feel it on my face
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| As the land, it rolls out before me
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| Everything is in it’s place
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| My old home, I’ll never go to
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| My old home, I’ll never see
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| For I must ride now across these flatlands
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| Fleein' the man who murdered me
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| By the dawn’s early light
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| Oh now, I must saddle up and ride
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| By the dawn’s early light
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| Oh now, ride through the night
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| Into the dawn’s early light
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| In the state of Indiana
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| Lived the man who killed my son
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| I shot him dead, now I did it indeed
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| After ten long years on the run
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| But that man, he was not a loner
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| Had two brothers, Lord, you see
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| They flipped a coin to let fate decide
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| Which one would come and murder me
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| Sun comes up, down in the valley
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| In the air, sensation (???)
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| When I see comin' up around the corner
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| Both of the Brothers riding right in front of me
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| Down in the valley it’s two against one
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| All men reaching for their guns
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| Three shots fired down deep in the valley
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| Two men dying in the morning sun
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| By the dawn’s early light
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| My boy’s kneelin' by my side
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| By the dawn’s early light
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| As I lay me down to die
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| By the dawn’s early light
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| Oh now, I must saddle up and ride
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| By the dawn’s early light
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| Oh now, ride through the night
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| Riding along into the night
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| Riding along into the night
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| Well, it must’ve been five, six years ago under the dawn’s early light
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| Well, I led my darling down the old vermillion way
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| Well, I led her down to the riverside (???)
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| And we said our vows in the moonlight that night
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| And we knew from that day we’d never be apart
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| But then it all changed in the blink of an eye |