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    He was just a lonely cowboy with a heart so brave and true,
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    he learned to love a maiden with eyes of heaven's own blue.

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    They learned to love each other, and named their wedding day,
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    when a quarrel came between them, and Jack, he rode away.

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    He joined a band of cowboys, and tried to forget her name,
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    but out on the lonely prairie she waits for him the same.

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    One night when work was finished, just at the close of day,
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    someone said : “Sing a song, Jack, t’will drive those cares away."

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    When he reached the prairie, he found a new made mound,
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    his friends they sadly told him, they'd laid his loved one down.

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    They said as she was dying, she breathed her sweetheart's name,
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    and asked them with her last breath to tell him when he came.

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    Your sweetheart waits for you, Jack, your sweetheart waits for you,
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    out on the lonely prairie where the skies are always blue.