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Cowboy Junkies
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Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river,
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with a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail
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I think you'd better call John
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'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
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And it's less than a mile away
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I hope they didn't come to stay
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It's got numbers on the side and a gun,
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and it's making big waves
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Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains
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Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy Lou
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So the powers that be left me here to do all the thinking
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And I just turned twenty-two
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I was wondering what to do
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And the closer they got,
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The more those feelings grew
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Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassuring
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He told me, 'Red means run, Son, numbers add up to nothing'
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But when that first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming
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Raised the rifle to my eye
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Never stopped to wonder why
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Then I saw black and my face flash in the sky
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Shelter me from the powder and the finger
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Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
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Just think of me as one you never figured,
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to fade away so young
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with so much left undone
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Remember me to my love
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I know I'll miss her
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