Intro
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Verse 1
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Gather the wagons get ready to roll 
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Dreams of the west down deep in our souls 
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We should have known the wild prairie wind 
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Would cut through a blanket of buffalo skin 
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Wrapped in those robes high up on the wagons 
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That’s where that old western story begins 
 
Verse 2
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We heard there were renegades rustlers and rogues 
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There’ll be the devil to pay I suppose 
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Half crazy outlaws harder than stone 
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Scavengers waiting to savage our bones 
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Wounded and weary high up on the wagons 
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And so that Old western story goes on 
 
Verse 3
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The Rockies stood waiting to challenge a man 
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Every morning the wagon boss gave his command 
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Deep in the snow in a high mountain pass 
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How many lifetimes can one winter last 
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Hungry and frozen high up on the wagons 
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Who thought that old western story would last 
 
Verse 4
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In the valleys out west came the end of the line 
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A footnote in history a step out of time 
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Carving a life out of timber and stone 
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Living and dying our story goes on 
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Ten generations living and dying 
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That old western story is written in stone