Key: G major
Verse 1
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Well you could see it in his
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eyes as they strained against the night,
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grip upon the road,
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Sixty- five miles into town,
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and a winter's thirst to drown,
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A winter still with two months left to go.
Verse 2
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open,
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his grin too hard and sore,
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His shoulders too far high to bring relief,
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But the Kopper King is hot, even
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if the band is not,
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And it sure beats shooting whiskey- jacks
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Verse 3
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Then he laughs and says "It did
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I was n't screaming
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when I hit the door."
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will their shaking never stop,
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bottles to the floor.
Verse 4
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mackinaw with hungry dogs at bay,
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in his sudden roar,
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With one wrong word he burns,
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When he's finished there's a
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dead man on the floor.
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Well they watched for him in Carmacks, Haines,
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and Carcross,
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nowhere else to go,
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But he hit the four- wheel- drive
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up the Canol road.
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up the Canol road,
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In the Salmon Range at forty- eight
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Verse 6
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Well it's God's own neon green
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Throwing brittle coloured
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It's four more hours til dawn,
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and the gas is almost gone,
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And that bitter Yukon wind
Verse 7
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Now you can see it in his eyes
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as they glitter in the light
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frost around his brow,
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Too late the dawn has come,
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that Yukon winter has won,
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cabin fever now.
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Well they watched for him in
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and Carcross,
With Teslin blocked there's
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nowhere else to go,
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But they hit the four- wheel- drive
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up the Canol road.
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up the Canol road,
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forty- eight below,
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They found him thirty- eight miles up
Outro 1
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