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Everett Ruess
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Dave Alvin
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I was born Everett Ruess
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I've been dead for sixty years
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I was just a young boy in my twenties
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The day I disappeared
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Into the Grand Escalante Badlands
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Near the Utah and Arizona line
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And they never found my body, boys
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Or understood my mind
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I grew up in California
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And I loved my family and my home
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But I ran away to the High Sierra
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Where I could live free and alone
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And folks said, "He's just another wild kid
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He'll grow out of it in time"
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But they never found my body, boys
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Or understood my mind
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I broke broncos with the cowboys
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I sang healing songs with the Navajo
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I did the snake dance with the Hopi
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And I drew pictures everywhere I go
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Then I swapped all my drawings for provisions
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To get what I needed to get by
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And they never found my body, boys
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Or understood my mind
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Well I hate your crowded cities
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With the sad and hopeless mobs
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And I hate your grand cathedrals
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Where you try to trap God
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'Cause I know God is here in the canyons
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With the rattlesnakes and the pinon pines
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And they never found my body, boys
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Or understood my mind
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They say I was killed by a drifter
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Or I froze to death in the snow
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Maybe mauled by a wildcat
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Or I'm livin' down in Mexico
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But my end, it doesn't really matter
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All that counts is how you live your life
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And they never found my body, boys
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Or understood my mind
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But you give your dreams away as you get older
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And oh but I never gave up mine
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And they'll never find my body, boys
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Or understand my mind
Dave Alvin - "Everett Ruess"
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