Doubletree

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The snow falls on the passes

And it covers up the rails
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And the hired men ride up to make 
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them clean
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It's a winter camp and a frozen damp

And a shovel in your hand
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And a coal train comes rumbling 
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through the seam


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That morning came up shining
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Clear and sharp as broken glass
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We were riding for the tracks at 
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Sugaree
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All holler and high spirit
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And the devil take the last
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And Henry lay a wager then to me

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He said "I've got five dollars

And a whiskey at the bar
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Says I make the tracks ahead of you"
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So we touched our horses up

Sent them running down the hill
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And I did something I never meant 
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to do

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Well I cut hard behind him
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From his blind side I come around
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Just as we were going down the scree
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I only meant to scare him but he 
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tumbled to the ground
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And he broke his neck beneath the 
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doubletree

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So you take him cut him out in a 
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length of pine
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Lay him out in a suit of clothes
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Best that you can find
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Lay his body gentle in the ground
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And say a prayer for Henry
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Before you lay him down

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The night before poor Henry died

We slept on open ground
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The circus of the stars a blaze of 
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white
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Henry was the best friend that I 
ever had
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And I slept still as a child      
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that night