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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I have led a Christian life
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I speak of family history
As it's transcribed by my wife
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I sit here in New Hampton
The year is 1910
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Looking back from Iowa
I was born in Temple Moor
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in 1825
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til my mother died
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Starvation crept across the land
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America's our dream.
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Six cruel weeks on stormy seas
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aboard the ship Tyrene.
American primitive man
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in an American primitive land.
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I wash my face in a frying pan.
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American primitive man.
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The English offered farm and ground
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To United States we're bound
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By train and then by cattle boat
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All the filth down in that hole
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We landed in Milwaukee,
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trekked two hundred miles or more
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was carried by each man
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Four spades for cultivation
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we brought from Meyerland
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We worked at splittin' railroad ties,
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bought one old milkin' cow
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A quarter section uncleared land,
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two oxen and a plow
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At night we heard the wolves howl
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on our newly purchased farm
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took shelter in our barn
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The Larsons and the Coonies,
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the Russells, the Malloys
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We tilled the soil of Iowa
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and grew a spate of girls and boys
American Primitive Man
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In an American Primitive Land
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A whiskey still in an oatmeal can
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American Primitive Man
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I'm an American Primitive
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsA D E F#m B
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Capo: 2
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