| Jim, I did everything that I could
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| But your fever just wouldn’t die down
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| So I tied your horse to the wagon bed
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| And last night I brought you to town.
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| But when I got there you were gone Jim
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| And there was nothin' nobody could do I bought you a suit and a tie Jim
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| And today I wore one too.
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| Jim I wore a tie today
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| The first one that I ever wore
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| And you’d have said I looked like a dummy
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| Out of a dry goods store.
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| Jim they said a lot of things
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| But I don’t know a thing they said
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| My mind kept wanderin' off down the trail
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| Back to the times that we’ve had.
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| (Wind her through sun and the rain)
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| And for gold on the cuff
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| We’ve done everything in the book I guess
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| And a lot they’d never thought up.
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| Well Jim, you’re ridin' on ahead
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| I guess that’s how it has be But when you reach those streets paved with gold Jim
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| Stake a claim out for me… |