Key: D major
Verse 1
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And now, my friends,
you ask me
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what makes me sad and still
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And why my brow is darkened
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Run in your pony closer
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Of Utah Corral, my partner,
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and his last ride on the trail
Mid the cactus and the mesquite
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Where the cattle roam in thousands,
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There's a grave with
neither headstone,
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neither date nor name
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There lies my partner sleeping in
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the land from which I came
We rode the rains together
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and rode it side by side
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I loved him as a brother,
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We were rounding up one morning,
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our work was almost done.
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on a mad and fearful run.
The boss's little daughter
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was holding on that side.
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She started in to turn them,
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that's where my partner died.
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given her by a friend.
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It was this bright red blanket
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brought Utah to his end.
As Beryl rushed her pony
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at the cattle on the right
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The blanket slipped beneath her
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When the cowboy saw the blanket,
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If now should the pony fail her,
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none could save her from her death
When Barrow saw the cattle,
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she turned her pony's face
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She leaned from out her saddle -tide,
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But in leaning, lost her blanket,
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Lie still, Barrow, I'm coming,
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were the words my partner cried
About 15 yards behind her,
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Utah come ridin' fast
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Though he never saw that mo ment,
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the ride would be his last
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He swung from out the saddle
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to catch her from the ground
But the cinches of his saddle
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and his backstitch snapped asunder
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He now picked up the blanket
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and swung it over his head
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and started across the prairie
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lie still Barrow he said.
His six gun flashed like lightning
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as the cattle rushed to kill him
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he dropped the leading steer
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with many a wound and bruise,
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his young life had ebbed away
And in some future morning
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I hope we'll all meet Utah
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at the roundup far away
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Then we wrapped him in a blanket,
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And was that very blanket
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that brought Utah to his end
You
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