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Josh Ritter
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At night we crossed the border
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Following a black robe
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To the edge of the reservation
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To Cataldo Mission
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Where the saints and all the martyrs
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Look down on dyin' converts
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What makes the water holy
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She says is that it's the closest thing to rain
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I stole a mule from Anthony
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I helped Anne up upon it
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And we rode to Coeur d'Alene
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Passed Harrison and Wallace
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They were blasting out the tunnels
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Makin' way for the light of learnin'
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When Jesus comes a' callin'
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She said, 'He's coming round the mountain on a train'
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Yeah
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It's my home last night I dreamt that I grew wings
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I found a place where they could hear me when I sing
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We floated on to Hanford
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On a lumber boat upriver
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Past the fisheries and the mill towns
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Like a stretch of future graveyards
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She was driven to distraction
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Said," I wonder what will happen
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When they find out they're mistaken"
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The land is too changed to ever change
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We waded through the market place
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Someone's ship had come in
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There was silver and begonias
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Dynamite and cattle
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There were hearts as big as apples
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And apples in the shape of Mary's heart
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I said, "Inside this gilded cage
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A songbird always looks so plain"
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Yeah
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It's my home last night I dreamt that I grew wings
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I found a place where they could hear me when I sing
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And so they came with cameras
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Breaking through the morning mist
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Press and businessmen tycoons
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Episcopal, philanthropists
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Lost in their appraisal
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Of the body of a woman
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But all we saw were lowlands
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Clouds clung to mountains without strings
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And at last we saw some people
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And at last we saw some people
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And at last we saw some people
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Huddled up against
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The rain that was descending
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Like railroad spikes and hammers
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They were headed for the border
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Walking and then running
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And then they were gone into the fog
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But Anne said, "Underneath their jackets she saw wings"
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