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The Ballad of Alferd Packer
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Phil Ochs
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This is the ballad of Alferd Packer
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An infamous guy to the old west
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In the state of Colorado in the year of seventy-four
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They crossed the San Juan Mountains growing hungry to the core
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Their guide was Alferd Packer, they trusted him too long
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For his character was weak and his appetite was strong
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They called him a murderer, a cannibal, a thief
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It just doesn't pay to eat anything but Government inspected beef
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Along the Gunnison River, an Indian camp they spied
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An Indian chief approached them to stop them he did try
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He warned them of the danger in the snow that lay around
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But the danger was in Packer for his hunger knew no bound
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They called him a murderer, a cannibal, a thief
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It just doesn't pay to eat anything but Government inspected beef
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Two cold months went slowly by, Packer came back alone
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My comrades they all froze to death, I'm starving, he did moan
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The Indian chief knew how he lied, he spat upon the ground
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For Packer's belly hung out all over his belt, he'd gained some thirty pounds
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They called him a murderer, a cannibal, a thief
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It just doesn't pay to eat anything but Government inspected beef
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Well, for nine long years he ran away, but finally he was tried
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He claimed he didn't kill them, he only ate their hide
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That County had six democrats, until that man arrived
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Well only one lives on today, he ate the other five [Incomprehensible]
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Eighteen years he stayed in jail, it was a dreadful fate
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For he suffered indigestion every time he ate
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Still, it's hard to blame this hungry guy who went searchin' for the mines
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For when he ate his friends, he'd never heard of Duncan Hines
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For when he ate his friends, he'd never heard of Duncan Hines
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