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Well, Rayburn Crane he rode these mountains
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Like the streams, he rode 'em through
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Through the Farewell Gap and the Franklin Lakes
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And up north to Chagupa Plateau
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With the government men and the hunters and the dudes
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And the leaders of the business world
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Yea, Rayburn Crane was a packhorse man
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And a mighty good hand with a mule
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Rayburn Crane, Rayburn Crane
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The mountains and the valleys and the trees
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Remember your name
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He rode forty-five years through the mountains and the valleys
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Just a-pulling them strings of mules
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And the ropes and the chaps and the halters and the saddles
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Well, these were the Rayburn's tools
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Sitting down at night by the firelight talking
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And a-pulling at the whiskers on his chin
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You didn't need no music when Rayburn went to talking
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'Bout the mountains and the packhorse men
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Rayburn Crane, Rayburn Crane
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The mountains and the valleys and the trees
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Remember your name
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[Verse]
Well, the business men they bought these mountains
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For a big time ski resort
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An ol' Rayburn he's gone down to die
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In a Three Rivers' trailer court
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And a canvas, flapjack cook-tent moans
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With the bushes and the trees in the wind
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'Cause there ain't no place in a ski resort
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For a mule skinning, packhorse man
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Rayburn Crane, Rayburn Crane
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The mountains and the valleys and the trees
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Remember your name
[Chorus]
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Rayburn Crane, Rayburn Crane
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The mountains and the valleys and the trees
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Remember your name