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Bill Staines
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Now they're only ghost towns
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swaying in the wind
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Memories of bright and better days
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When the cities slowly grew
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from the wagons rolling through,
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When the school bell woke and tolled
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and the hurdy-gurdy rolled
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From a canyon in Wyoming,
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a gulch in Idaho,
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Now they're only ghost towns
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far from the broad highway.
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Diamond dust and marble,
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crystal chandeliers,
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Purple curtained carriages are gone,
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As the tar and paper shack
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built beside the railroad track,
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Just a temporary mode
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'til he hit the mother lode,
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Then he'd holler up the town
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with his pockets hanging down,
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Forty Rod and Redeye to greet the miner's dawn.
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So fleet the work of mortals,
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back to earth again,
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Ancient thing will fade like a dream,
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You and I will come and go,
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share the joy and feel the woe,
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Of too brief midsummer days
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and too many winter ways,
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And no matter how we try,
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we can never find the why.
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Never find the reason, never find the scheme.
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