Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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C
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Verse 1
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Oh, your
golden lights of America,
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Joseph sought your prairies
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and your buffalo.
And the humming of the rails
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down through Kansas,
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They brought Joseph in from
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Baltimore.
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The Cavalry, the Indians,
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and an old dan were his only friends.
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Then the old dan died and
the Indians' plight
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Made the Cavalry young Joe's
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enemy.
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Oh, the
outlaws spilled the blood across the
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Kansas plains back in the '70s.
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Joseph took a badge for America
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To defend you from your fantasies.
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Joseph wore that badge
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across the Kansas
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Prairies to save the railroads.
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But the heroes that we made,
well, they were
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Ruthless soldiers who'd kill for gold.
Interlude 2
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F
Em
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Verse 3
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With a broken heart for the frontier plains,
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Joseph sat a- rocking in his
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front- porch swing.
That old tin badge is tarnished now,
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You know it was just
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a young man's dream.
Em
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And old man's tales are hard
to reach when you
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Don't believe in your American Dream.
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The Indians,
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the buffalo and old Joe Mason,
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They died from memory.
Interlude 3
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Verse 4
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Oh, your golden lights of America,
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Joseph sought your prairies
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and your buffalo.
And the humming of the
rails down through
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Kansas, they brought Joseph
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in from Baltimore.
Am
C
Am
The Cavalry, the Indians,
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and an old dan...
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Forsaken old man.
Interlude 4
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Am
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Verse 5
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Oh, your golden lights of Amer
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G
D
ica.
Outro 1
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Am
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