Tom: D major•
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Well, my father, he was a mountaineer
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His fist was a knotty hammer
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Quick on his feet as a running deer
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And he spoke with a Yankee stammer
My mother, she was merry and brave,
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an d so she came to her laborer,
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with a tall green fur for her
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comforting neighbor.
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Some like a godling's son
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But I was cradled in the twigs of pine
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In the skin of a mountain lion
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Well, I lost my boyhood and found my wife,
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a girl like a Salem clipper,
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hunting knife
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With eyes as bright as the dipper
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where the buffalo feed
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were our flagons
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I sewed my sons like apple seed
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on the trail of the western wagon
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Well they were
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right tight boys,
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A fruitful, goodly mustard
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The eldest died at
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the Alamo
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The youngest fell with Custer
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Oh, the letters that told it
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You know it burned my hand
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Where they've been smiling
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You know it broke my heart
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To see it Ž
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So I sadly read Ž
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On the broken coast Ž
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Wrote him into the day there
Ž Ž
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An d he threw me down like
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a thun derbolt Ž Ž
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Rolled on me as I lay there
So I lie in the heart
Of the fat black soil
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Like the seed of a prairie
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thistle
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hon ey and oil
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Pick them as clean as a whistle
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Like the rains of spring
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My sons like wild geese are flying
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And I lie and I hear hear
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the meadow logs sing
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and there's much content
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in my day
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so go play with the towns
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that you've built out of
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your blocks towns
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where you might have found me
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Oh, I will sleep in my earth
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like a tired red fox
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And my buffalo have found me
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guitar so lo
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
applause
Thank you.
Well, when I always come to this part
in that song about Custer,
I have to do something
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on the other side of the coin.
Verse 3
This is a song I wrote,
it's a very unusual song about a
man talking to his son
who's just been born.
You
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