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Neil Young & Crazy Horse
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Look out mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river
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With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail
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I think you better call John
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'Cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
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And it's less than a mile away, I hope they didn't come to stay
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It's got numbers on the side and a gun and it's making me brave
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Daddy's gone, my brother's out huntin' in the mountains
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Big John's been drinkin' since the river took Annie-Lou
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So the powers that he left me here to do the thinkin'
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And I just turned twenty-two
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I was wonderin' what to do
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The closer it got the more those feelings grew
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Daddy's rifle in my hand felt re-assurin'
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He told me,"Red means run son, numbers add up to nothing"
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But when the first shot hit the dock I saw it comin'
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Raised my rifle to my eye
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Never stopped to wonder why
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Then I saw black and my face flash in the sky
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Shelter me from the Powder and the Finger
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Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
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Just think of me as one you never feared
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You fade away so young
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There's so much left undone
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Remember me for my love, I know I miss her
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