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Go back to Carolina
(Choose one)
Before you leave, you'll need to put your affairs in order. After paying your debts, you say goodbye to your woman. You tell her "you'll be back some day,"
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Another good choice! You know you're comin' back but you don't want to leave her hangin' forever. After takin' on supplies, next you meet the foreman on the drive. "He says, son you're gonna ride"
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That's right, you're at the end to start things off, but what did you expect? You're still a greenhorn and you've got to prove yourself. As you wait for the word to head-on out, "all the wranglers sat around in a circle, and
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"They sang songs that they learned as a child."
Okay, you're doin' fine. Just keep your ears open and listen to the other cowpokes. You've got plenty of time to show off your stuff, just take it easy. How long do you figure you'll be "on the dust covered trail?"
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Yep! That's a long time to be gone, foolish' dreamin' about the west. You know by now that it takes about a week for the word to get around on this cattle drive. It's a lonesome road, and a hard way to live. Okay. There's a rumour goin' round that
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"The foreman shot a man in Denver."
Well, you can't always trust everything you hear! On a long hard ride, you've got to keep your mind wanderin'
As you ride the trail you "listen to the wind blow,"
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Have we separated the trail hands from the deadwood yet? The way you're goin' you'll be writin' the lesson plans for Miss Virgina's trivia.
As we approach a fork in the trail, there's stangers ahead. Some of the boys begin talkin' with the tall one who rode a:
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They want to trade some goods, and join our wagon train. You think it might be a setup, an outlaw, a man who never understands the word called danger. Your simple advise is:
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That's right. When you leave yourself wide open you'll be shot down where you stand!
You've been fortunate on the trail, but it's gettin' lonesome. Lookin' back on why you left Carolina, you reassure yourself. You "took the trip to Montana,"
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"Cause I paid my time, and a new life is gonna be mine!"
No, we're not talkin' bout an outlaw from the Denver jail. You had dreams about the west and started to roam! Remember, you're lookin' for gold 'cause it was "everywhere," you were told.
As you break for the evening you've got your "saddle on the ground and that ol' moon can still be found,
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Okay, time for some fun. What's the evening treat?
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That's right, bring on the women- there'll be plenty of time for the music later. As you look around the hall, in the "corner of the dark, bar room sits an old"
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"Beagle dog, grown a little too old."
The beagle dog's still in Carolina, with the rusty shot gun. Anyway,the cowboy says he was a star a long time ago, back in '31. As you look him over you notice the Stetson hat that he wore was the finest made:
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You both decide to sit down at the poker table. What's your game?
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After a couple of hands and few good laughs, your "glass is empty. The bartender says,"
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Well, we know for every fool there's a good bar stool and the same old sad, sad song. So you go on back to camp, homesick now. You long to see that Carolina sunset, more than ever. "It make's heaven,"
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"A little bit closer to earth."
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When you're out choppin' wood you,
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Almost at the end of our road now. You been diggin' and siftin' from five 'til five, sellin' everything just to stay alive. You took one look at that torn ol' picture of Virgina, and knew she wasn't meant to live that way. What's your decision now?
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"I'm sure in your mind that you vision this paradise, a place we could live for ever more.
"So let's search wide and far, for that mountain or that shooting star, a sign that might show us the way."