Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
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My name is
Anna
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Olsson, living
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Norway was so hard
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I watched my nearest neighbors now
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planting fruit trees in their yard
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Their dreaming of the old land
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has but added to their tears
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As most of their young children died be
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fore they reached six years
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Svalbard man, praise
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God we fared quite well
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While others fled in dark of night
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from land to producer
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Some hung themselves in apple
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trees on broken bankrupt farms
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The sun would rise on rotten fruit and
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the smoke of burning barns
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American primitive man,
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American primitive man
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He never touched me with an angry hand,
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American primitive man
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This land was conquered horseback,
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its horses now we race
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Clydesdales are trained in farming ways
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Our daylight's gone to dusty work,
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the night is storms and fright
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And the lonesome sound of orphan trains
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whistling through the night
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And when the wind moves through the
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barley and the owls begin to moan
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Makes the body mournful for the
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wars we've left back home
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So many nights I watched the storm,
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I stared out through the rain
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And dreamt of our departed boy
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Riding on the orphan train
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The son who ran away from us
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On that orphan train
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Ab Db Cm Fm...
Eb
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Cm
Fm
Bb
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