Gold Rush Brides

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[Verse 1]
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 Follow the typical signs, the hand 
painted lines down prairie roads.
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Pass the lone church spire, pass 
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the talking wire from where to who 
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knows?
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  There's no way to divide the 
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beauty of the sky from the wild 
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western plains.
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Where a man could drift in 
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legendary myth by roaming over 
spaces
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The land was free and the price was
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 right

[Verse 2]
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Dakota on the wall is a white 
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robed woman tall yet maidenly
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 Such power in her hand as she 
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hails the wagon man's family.
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I see Indians that crawl through 
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this mural that recalls our history

[Verse 3]
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Who were the homestead wives?
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Who were the gold rush brides?
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Does anybody know?
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Do their works survive their 
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yellow fever lives in pages they 
wrote?
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The land was free yet it cost 
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their lives

[Verse 4]
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 In miner's lust for gold a 
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family's house was bought and sold 
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piece by piece
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 A widow staked her claim on a 
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dollar and his name so painfully
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In letters mailed back home her 
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Eastern sisters they would moan as 
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they would read
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Accounts of madness childbirth 
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loneliness and grief
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Accounts of madness, childbirth, 
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loneliness and grief