Northern Cowboy

	  		
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Look here comes a northern cowboy 
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He just rode in from Aberdeen 
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He's got money in his pockets 
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And blisters like you've never ever seen 
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Don't let him fool you with the stories 
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Of all the money he has made 
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I've been looking along the north-east coastline 
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And those cowboys have already dug its grave
 

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Look here comes a northern cowboy 
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He just rode in from Aberdeen 
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He's got money in his pockets 
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And blisters like you've never ever seen 
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Don't let him fool you with the stories 
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Of all the money he has made 
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I've been looking along the north-east coastline 
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And those cowboys have already dug its grave
 

Verse 
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There was a time when we were happy 
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With the simple pleasures that we knew 
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And then one day it started raining 
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And a very ugly storm began to brew 
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It wasn't long before we noticed 
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That the people had a fever in their eyes 
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They were taking all the things they'd been preserving 
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And going out and throwing them up into the skies 
 
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Look here comes a northern cowboy 
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He just rode in from Aberdeen 
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He's got money in his pockets 
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And blisters like you've never ever seen 
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Don't let him fool you with the stories 
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Of all the money he has made 
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I've been looking along the north-east coastline 
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And those cowboys have already dug its grave 


Verse 
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Once the money started moving 
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The fever spread from door to door 
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And all the young girls started selling 
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Something they had never sold before 
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The people spun around in circles 
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Confusion cluttering their minds 
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Their lives were being drawn from them 
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By bastards of a hundred different kinds 
 
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Look here comes a northern cowboy 
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He just rode in from Aberdeen 
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He's got money in his pockets 
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And blisters like you've never ever seen 
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Don't let him fool you with the stories 
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Of all the money he has made 
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I've been looking along the north-east coastline 
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And those cowboys have already dug its grave
 

Verse 
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So come all ye northern cowboys 
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Get back down here upon the farm 
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Leave the salt wind to the sailors 
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Leave the North Sea to the storm 
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And one day when it's all over 
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And you're hanging up your saddles and your guns 
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You'll look around this oil-stained country 
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And you'll wish to Christ it never had begun