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Nanci Griffith
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Well, the good times scratched a laugh
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From the lungs of the young men
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In a Deadwood saloon, South Dakota afternoon
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And the old ones by the door with their heads to their chests
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They told lies about whiskey on a woman's breath
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Yes, and some tell the story of young Mickey Free
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Who lost an eye to a buck deer in the Tongue River Valley
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Oh and some tell the story of California Joe
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Who sent word through the Black Hills
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'There was a mountain of gold'
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And the gold she lay cold in their pockets
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And the sun she sets down on the trees
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And they thank the Lord for the land that they live in
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Where the white man does as he pleases
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Some flat shoed fool from the East comes a runnin'
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With some news that he'd read in some St. Joseph paper
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And it was "Drinks all around" 'cause the news he was tellin'
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Was the one they called Crazy
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Had been caught and been dealt with
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And the Easterner he read the news from the paper
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And the old ones gathered closer so's they could hear better
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"And it says here that Crazy Horse was killed
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While he was trying to escape
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And it was some time last September and it don't give the exact date"
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And the gold she lay cold in their pockets
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And the sun she sets down on the trees
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And they thank the Lord for the land that they live in
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Where the white man does as he pleases
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Where the white man does as he pleases
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Then the talk turned back to whiskey and women
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And cold nights on the plains, Lord, and fightin' those Indians
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And the Easterner he says he'll have one more 'fore he goes
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He gives the paper to the Crow boy
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Who sweeps up the floor
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And the gold still lay cold in their pockets
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And the sun still sets down on their trees
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And they thank the Lord for the land that they live in
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Where the white man does as he pleases
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Where the white man does as he pleases
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Where the white man does as he pleases
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As he wants to, as he pleases
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