Key: Db major•
Verse 1
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We
were
branding Zaga's cattle
at Frost Canyon in the spring
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when neighboring with each other
was still such a normal thing
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that a fellow never realized
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and not the common rule.
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The wives were all at the cabin visiting
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an d cooking a feast
that'd be served up on long
when the sun had moved from the east.
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Everyone else was down at the trap
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in the dust and the wind and the sun,
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and sweat -stained hats,
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teaching me work can be fun.
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From the west, a rider came,
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leading a packhorse
towards camp.
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and said, son, there's a last saddle tramp.
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that was romantic as hell.
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He rode up to the herd
and I learned his
Fm
name was Thomas O'Dell.
mend a sawbuck.
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He's told he's welcome.
and well,
Well, we had finished the branding
and was hunting some shade
and a drink
your outhouse is locked.
And then just stood there
Well, Fred pulled out a key,
threw it to Tom.
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He said, you know, vandals,
insurance and such.
They broke all the dishes.
They've shot out her phone.
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We just can't be here that much."
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But Tom wasn't about to let this thing drop.
I recognize now,
that's the cue that he gives,
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just be fore he philosophizes.
Lord rest his soul,
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took a homestead in what's
now Arkansas.
was to dig a deep hole
and take some lumber
one that'd stand through the good
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times and bad.
And for thirty years, Fred,
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he never locked the door once.
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over to Dad.
Dad raised us kids.
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didn't have a dime. time.
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even through Green Apple time.
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Now my brother runs that outfitting house
for thirty years,
and that outhouse is still used regular,
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unlocked, I have little fear.
don't you see it's really not that big a deal,
it's just that these van
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dals from town'll
tear up anything that ain't handy to steal.
We were all on our toes to hear what he'd say next,
he'd been towin',
said, Fred, I'd bet my good
that in the seventy -five years
that that outhouse has stood there,
no one ever stole as much as one handful.
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