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A# lonely spot I know where no man will go
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Where the shadows have all the room
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I was riding free on that old S-P
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Humming a southern tune
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When a man came along made me hush my song
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Kicked me off away out there
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As she pulled out of sight I turned to the right
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The left and everywhere
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All I could see was a cactus tree
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A# prairie dog playing there
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I watched the prairie dog eat on the tumbleweed
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That's his home away out there
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Ee oo ee dle dee dee ho oo lay dee ee dee
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Ee oo ee dle dee dee ho ho lay dee ee dee
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Then I threw down my load in the desert road
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Rested my weary legs too
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Watched the sinking sun make the tall shadows run
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Across that barren plain
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Then I hummed a tune to the rising moon
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He gets lonesome way out there
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Then I closed my eyes to the starlit skies
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Lost myself in dreams
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I dreamed the desert sand was a milk-and-honey land
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Then I awoke with the dawn
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There's a train coming back on the one-way track
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Going to take me away from here
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Ee oo ee dle dee dee ho oo lay dee ee dee
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Ee oo ee dle dee dee ho ho lay dee ee dee