Chris Knight – North Dakota (Guitar)

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Been snowin all day when I got home

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The fire was out the cabin was cold

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And I poured some stale coffee from the pot

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The longer I waited the snow got higher

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Had to split some wood and build a fire

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If she told me she’d be gone I forgot

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I’d seen it snow that hard before

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I couldn’t see the cabin from the stable door

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And that mare she always rode was in the stall

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The law couldn’t come till the weather broke

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My heart was poundin in my throat

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And I searched and called her name till it was raw

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I never should have brought her here

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Livin’s hard this time of year

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Tryin to keep food and fire till winters done

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Sometimes she'd gaze across the plains

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With a look that I couldn’t name

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And I’d wonder if she'd stay till springtime comes

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I found her on the first warm day

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The rain had washed the snow away

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Gone for wood and lost her way back home

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And I ain’t the kind believes in ghosts

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But some nights I get pretty close

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When the North Dakota winter moans

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When the North Dakota winter moans