verse 1 
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Let me stay with you a while and tell old, old stories 
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Of your oft' electric laughter and your charms 
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How you came out of Montana with a wolf pup at your heels 
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And a snow white rabbit huddled in your arms 


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verse 2 
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Remember, hey, those Gold Rush days, how the gold dust in the mud 
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From Main St. leading all the way to Alder 
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With sunset turned the color of a lover's throat at blush 
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And with moonrise, blazed some new and silver river 


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verse 3 
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The minister was bloodless and the preachers were on fire 
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And Mahatmas sang their love songs in nasturtiums 
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But if he, or they, or any of their masters called my name 
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I was in your holy temple and never heard them 


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verse 4 
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Remember, hey, those Gold Rush days, some Last Chance Gulch saloon 
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You, and I, and all the miners watching 
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As shadows danced across a screen as quiet as the moon 
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Without sound, their fury signifying all things 


Verse 5 
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The whole town was alive that night as we floated down the street 
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Through fist fights, cowboy poets, parlor women 
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And the light from the projector seemed to glow within your soul 
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Like an opal throated songbird in its prism 


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Verse 6 
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They're tearing down the movies now, not a stone upon a stone 
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All dust is dust no matter how celestial 
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But I, who tasted hornet juice and honey on the rose 
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What use have I for all their cold memorials? 


Verse 7 
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Still every now and then sometimes when the night sky gets so bright 
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And no Bethlehem of stars could match its burning 
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I Go out into the fields until I can feel you by my side 
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And my memory is a book of gold thrown open 


Bridge 
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How you rode a white horse 
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The queen of the harvest kissed your cheek 
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The boys all took one look 
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And found that they could no longer speak 


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