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1.When Abilene was young and gay And thunder-storms
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all hold hands We'll all join in and run the land But
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soldiers once Long long a-go Roared through the town and
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2.Then tracks were lain across the plain
By broken old men in torrid rain
The towns grew up, the people were still
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3.Gold came and went, quickly spent
The people broke down, and often drowned
Of wealth and pain in old Abilene
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