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thanks to Roy J for the words
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Flying Burrito Brothers  Sweet Desert Childhood by Gene Parsons

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It was off the desert road
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Fourteen miles up in the canyon I was born
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Where the rocks were piled up high
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And when the sun went down
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They looked like big old monsters
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You could yell out your whole name
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And the echo would come back crystal clear
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And the silence was so deafening
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I could hear it like thunder in my ears
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I still taste the sweet cool water
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As it bubbled out to quench the burning sand

And the cottonwoods stood trembling
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As the desert wind blew soft across the land
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Somewhere far away a coyote
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Called out his mournful ghostly song
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And I knew that very soon
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Sweet desert childhood would be gone
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Can a man ever go back home again?
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Can a man ever live that way again?
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The old windmill made a groan
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As it turned around to face the cold of the night
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The proof of all existence
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Crackled warm in the flickering firelight
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And the stars were so perfect
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That I wondered might this all just be a dream
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Could this all-alone place really be as magic as it seems?
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Can a man ever go back home again?
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Can a man ever live that way again?

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