Dwight Yoakam – Rapid City South Dakota (Guitar)

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Just a ragged kid in overalls

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He thumbed a ride one day

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He said, "Anywhere you're headed on my way."

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But as we passed by Big Al's drive-in

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His eyes began to flash

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He was leavin' Rapid City mighty fast

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He said, "I hope to God she finds

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The good-bye letter that I wrote her

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But the mail don't move to fast

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In Rapid City, South Dakota."

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Well, he left her just a blanket

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Of snow upon the farm

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And that don't keep your conscience very warm

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He said his friends were too darn country

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And his pa was too damn mean

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And there ain't no money pumpin' gasoline

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And her gentle eyes, the merchandise

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Of dreams the peddler sold her

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As he left her there in Rapid City, South Dakota

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Now the reason he was goin'

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I ain't sure I could say

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Might've been the rodeo in Santa Fe

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"There's a doctor in chicago

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I know she'll be all right."

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He told himself as he stared into the night

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And he said, "I hope to God she finds

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The good-bye letter that I wrote her

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But the mail don't move so fast

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In Rapid City, South Dakota."

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And all her people treatin' her

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Just like they never knowed her

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Lord, the winter's passin' slow

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In Rapid City, South Dakota