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I came to town |
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To search for gold |
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And I brought with me |
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A memory |
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And I seemed to hear |
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The night wind cry |
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Go hang your dreams on the hanging tree |
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Your dreams of love that could never be |
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Hang your faded dreams on the hanging tree |
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I searched for gold (at the hanging tree) |
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And I found my gold (at the hanging tree) |
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And I found a girl (and I found a girl) |
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Who loved just me (and she loved just me) |
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And I wished that I could love her too |
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But I'd left my heart on the hanging tree |
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I'd left my heart with a memory |
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And a faded dream on the hanging tree |
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Now there were men |
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Who craved my gold |
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And they meant to take my gold from me |
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When a man is gone |
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He needs no gold |
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So they carried me to the hanging tree |
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To join my dreams and a memory |
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Yes they carried me to-o the hanging tree |
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To really live you must almost die |
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And it happened just that way with me |
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They took the gold and they set me free |
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And I walked away from the hanging tree |
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I walked away from the hanging tree |
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And my own true love |
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Oh yes, she walked with me |
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That's when I knew that the hanging tree |
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Was a tree of life, new life for me |
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A tree of hope, new hope for me |
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A tree of love, new love for me |
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The hanging tree |
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The hanging tree |
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The hanging tree |
