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Dangerous Dan Mcgrew
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Hank Snow
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A bunch of the boys were whooping
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It up in the Malamute saloon
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The kid that handles the music-box
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Was hitting a jag-time tune
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Back at the bar in a solo game
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Sat Dangerous Dan McGrew
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And watching his luck was his light of love
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The lady that's known as Lou
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When out of the night which was fifty below
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And into the din and the glare
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There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks
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Dog dirty and loaded for bear
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He looked like a man with a foot in the grave
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And scarcely the strength of a louse
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Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar
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And he called for drinks on the house
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There was none could place the stranger's face
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Though we searched ourselves for a clue
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But we drank his health and the last to drink
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Was Dangerous Dan McGrew
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There's men that somehow just grip your eyes
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And hold them hard like a spell
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And such was he and he looked to me
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Like a man who had lived in hell
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With a face most hair and the dreary stare
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Of a dog whose day is done
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As he watered the green stuff in his glass
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And the drops fell one by one
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Then I got to figuring who he was
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And wondering what he'd do
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And I turned my head and there watching him
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Was the lady that's known as Lou
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His eyes went rubbering round the room
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And he seemed in a kind of daze
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Till at last that old piano fell
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In the way of his wondering gaze
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The rag-time kid was having a drink
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There was no one else on the stool
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So the stranger stumbles across the room
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And flops down there like a fool
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In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt
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He sat and I saw him sway
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Then he clutched the keys with his talon hands
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My God but that man could play
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Were you ever out in the great alone
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When the moon was awful clear?
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And the icy mountains hemmed you
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In with a silence you most could hear
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With only the howl of a timber wolf
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And you camped there in the cold
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A half-dead thing in the stark dead
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World clean mad for the muck called gold
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While high overhead green yellow
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And red the North Lights swept in bars
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Then you've got a hunch what the music meant
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Hunger and night and the stars
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And hunger not of the belly kind
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That's banished with bacon and beans
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But the gnawing hunger of lonely men
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For a home and all that it means
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For a fireside far from the cares
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That are four walls and a roof above
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But oh, so cramful of cozy joy
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And crowned with a woman's love
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A woman dearer than all the world
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And true as heaven is true
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God how ghastly she looks through her rouge
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The lady that's known as Lou
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Then all of a sudden the music changed
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So soft that you scarce could hear
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But you felt that your life had been looted
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Clean of all that it once held dear
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That someone had stolen the woman you loved
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That her love was a devil's lie
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That your guts were gone and the best of you
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Was to crawl away and die
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'Twas the crowning cry of a heart's despair
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And it thrilled you through and through
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I guess I'll make it a spread misery
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Said Dangerous Dan McGrew
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The music almost died away
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Then it burst like a pent-up flood
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And it seemed to say repay, repay
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And my eyes were blind with blood
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The thought came back of an ancient wrong
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And it stung like a frozen lash
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And the lust awoke to kill to kill
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Then the music stopped with a crash
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And the stranger turned and his eyes
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They burned in a most peculiar way
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In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt
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He sat and I saw him sway
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Then his lips went in in a kind of a grin
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And he spoke and his voice was calm
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And boys says he you don't know me
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And none of you care a damn
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But I want to state and my words are straight
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And I'll bet my poke they're true
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That one of you is a hound of hell
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And that one is Dan McGrew
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Then I ducked my head and the lights went out
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And two guns blazed in the dark
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And a woman screamed and the lights went up
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And two men lay stiff and stark
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Pitched on his head and pumped full of lead
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Was Dangerous Dan McGrew
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While the man from the creeks lay clutched
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To the breast of the Lady that's known as Lou
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These are the simple facts of the case
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And I guess I ought to know
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They say that the stranger was crazed
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With hooch and I'm not denying it's so
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I'm not so wise as the lawyer guys
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But strictly between us two
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The woman that kissed him and pinched his poke
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Was the lady that's known as Lou
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