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And the shining Rocky Mountains looked down on the people coming |
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Strong and sturdy freedom lovin' settlers cowboys pioneers |
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Now no foreign crown would rule them |
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Now a nation strong was standing even bigger was it growing |
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Added Iowa, Wisconsin then broke through the shining mountains |
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Staked a claim on California |
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Panned the gold out of its rivers irrigated desert valleys |
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Oregon, Minnesota, Kansas now were added to the total |
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Making 34 to number of the States now in the Union |
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And the years 1860 to 65 the history books're full of it |
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The sadness the heartbreak and the songs of that period |
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Tell us of a sadness and of a heartbreak when the nation was torn asunder |
