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Benjamin rode out of |
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Montana On a |
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Palomino pony |
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He told me he was all alone |
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He lost his family in forty-nine |
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Benjamin took me to |
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San Diego |
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Guess we caused quite a commotion |
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Selling Pacific ocean water |
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And callin' it seaweed wine (Chorus) |
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Oh, I never had as good a friend as |
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Benjamin He loved to travel |
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He'd been ever' place |
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I'd been and back again |
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That boy could unravel |
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Stories that would make your eyes |
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Big as blackberry pies, |
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I'm tellin' you |
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Life could be fun for anyone |
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Who had a good friend like |
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Benjamin Had a good friend like |
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Benjamin Well, me and |
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Ben thumbed a ride to |
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Alabama Spent the summer pickin' cotton |
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Now it was so doggone hot |
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We bought us a three-speed electric fan |
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Then at night we'd drink a |
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Coca-Cola |
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Listen to the rain a'fallin' |
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Hearin' the bob white callin' |
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As though he'd know we'd understand (Chorus) |
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Well, Ben and me spent some time in |
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Oklahoma Livin' on a reservation |
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Workin' at the service station |
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Pumpin' gas and passin' time |
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We caught a train down to |
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Harlan County |
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Thinkin' we were awful lucky |
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Just to walk along a |
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Kentucky backroad |
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Without no reason nor rhyme (Chorus) |
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Had a good friend like |
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Benjamin |
