A Long Way From Montana

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A long way it is from Montana 
  
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To west Texas whether by hoof or by rail 
  
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A long way it is from Alzada 
  
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To innocence lost somewhere out on the trail 



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My heart is lonesome and longing  

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My comrades are gone on the first morning train 

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And my heart hears a boyhood hymn calling 
  
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From a church down the valley comes this old refrain 

  
  
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Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling 
  
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Calling for you and for me  

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See on the portals He's waiting and watching 

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Watching for you and for me 

  

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Too many autumns I've watched 'em 
  
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Board trains with their plunder all headed for home 

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And too many autumns I've stayed here 
  
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To snap out the new ones 'fore winter comes on 

  

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And I wonder who's waiting for them 
  
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A sweetheart a lover a young wife with babe 
  
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But I know who's waiting for me 
  
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A mother and father who's hair has turned to gray 

  

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Come home come home 

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Wanderin' cowboy come home 

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Earnestly tenderly I hear them calling 
  
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My son it's time to come home 

  

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I've lingered long in this country 
  
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From high thunder basin to where rim lands start 

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And I've lingered too long a sinner  

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It's time that I pack up and follow my heart 

  

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A long way it is from Alzada 
  
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To a little sod house on the west Texas plains 
  
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A long way it is from Montana  

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But I'm going home on the next southbound train 

  

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A long way it is from Montana