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As a young man I went riding |
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Out on the western plain |
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In the state of North Dakota |
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I met my Nellie Kane |
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I met my Nellie Kane |
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She was living in a lonely cabin |
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With a son by another man |
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Five years she had waited for him |
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As long as a woman can |
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As long as a woman can |
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I don't know what changed my mind |
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Til then I was the ramblin' kind |
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The kind of love I can't explain |
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That I had for Nellie Kane |
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She took me on to work that day |
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To help her till the land |
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In the afternoon we planted seeds |
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In the evening we held hands |
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In the evening we held hands |
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Her blue eyes told me everything |
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A man could want to know |
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And it was then I realized |
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I would never goI would never go |
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(chorus) |
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Now many years have gone by |
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And her son has grown up tall |
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I became a father to him |
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And she became my all |
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She became my all |