Rider On An Orphan Train

	  		
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Once I rode an orphan train 
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And my brother did the same 
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They split us up in Missouri 
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James was five     and I was three 

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He got taken by some pair 
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But for me they did not care 
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We were brave and did not cry 
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When they made    us say goodbye 


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That was the last I saw of him 
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Before some family took me in 
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But I swore I'd run away 
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And find my brother James someday 

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I went back when I was grown 
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To find our old Children's Home 
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And I asked for to see my file 
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Of when I was     an orphan child 

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It's sad, they say, there's been a flood 
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File washed away in Missouri mud 
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Sometimes life is a stone wall 
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You either climb,    or else you fall 

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In every town, on every street 
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All the faces that I meet 
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And I wonder, could this one be 
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My brother James      come back to me 

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Though I don't know where he's gone 
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I have searched my whole life long 
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Now I roam from town to town 
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But there's no orphan     lost-and-found 

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Sometimes I dream a pleasant sight 
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My brother James and I unite 
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Remembering our last goodbye 
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No longer brave,    we start to cry 

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I hope he lives a life of ease 
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And all his days a soft, warm breeze 
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May he sit upon a throne 
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And may he never        sleep alone 


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Once I rode an orphan train 
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And my brother did the same 
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They split us up in Missouri 
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James was five       and I was three