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He was born in the bitterroot valley in the early morning rain |
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Wild geese over the water headin' north and home again |
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Bringin' a warm wind from the south |
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Bringin' the first taste of the spring |
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His mother took him to her breast and softly she did sing |
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Oh montana, give this child a home |
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Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own |
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Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes |
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Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies |
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His mother died that summer and he never learned to cry |
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He never knew his father and he never did ask why |
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He never knew the answers that would make an easy way |
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But he learned to know the wilderness and to be a man that way |
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His mother's brother took him in to family and his home |
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Gave him a hand that he could lean on and a strength to call his own |
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And he learned to be a farmer and he learned to love the land |
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And he learned to read the seasons and he learned to make a stand |
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Oh montana, give this child a home |
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Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own |
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Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes |
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Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies |
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On the eve of his 21st birthday he set out on his own |
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He was 30 years and runnin' when he found his way back home |
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Ridin' a storm across the mountains and an aching in his heart |
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Said he came to turn the pages and to make a brand new start |
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Now he never told a story of the time that he was gone |
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Some say he was a lawyer, some say he was a john |
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There was somethin' in the city that he said he couldn't breathe |
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And there was somethin' in the country that he said he couldn't leave |
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Oh montana, give this child a home |
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Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own |
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Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes |
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Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies |
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Now some say he was crazy and some glad that he is gone |
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But some of us miss him and we'll try to carry on |
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Giving a voice to the forest, giving a voice to the dawn |
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Giving a voice to the wilderness and the land that he lived on |
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Oh montana, give this child a home |
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Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own |
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Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes |
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Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies |
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Oh montana, give this child a home |
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Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own |
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Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes |
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Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild montana skies |