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Somewhere far away where I roam

There live my buffalo twin in our twin buffalo home sweet home

And takes good care of my native son

He calls me by my native name

He even lets us drink spring water on Sundays 2.99 a gallon

And somewhere further down the road where I also roam

There lives my caterpillar cousin beneath a fancy engraved tomb head stone

In the middle of his southern town

Beneath a cemetery burial plot

He don't pay rent no more

But he sure likes the spot

But in the furthest place I've ever known

Where even I so rarely roam

There lives a boy who just come back from war

His flesh was wounded but he made it back home

His mother calls him by his given name

And the neighbors whisper how he prefers to be alone

And he gets nightmares about boys dripping blood sold for 2.99 a gallon

But when I get me all real tired

And I got no more strength to roam

I catch me a horse driven carriage ride

From a local man named Ethan Frome

He don't say much as he tips his hat

And he carries his body as heavy as lead

And he could have been flying through the snow on his sled

But he wife was in bed and the horses had to be fed

Besides it's 2.99 a story

Pay up it's just 2.99 a story

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