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i was wanderin in a desert town waitin on a wire
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met a brown hair girl preachin brimstone and fire
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she drove an old pick up, she had dust on her shoes
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she said “let's make for the sunrise, he's called us to move”
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well i jumped up in shotgun thinkin what could i lose
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i think love is the strangest creation
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i could dream to know
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she drove fast like a rocket, straight like a train
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120 miles out she asked me my name
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at a little truck stop she told them all to reach for the sky
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she held up a pistol, there was a grin to her eye
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she threw me a bible, said to read them a line
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well i sang like a preacher while she took every dime
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i think love is the strangest creation
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i could dream to know
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we had us a child, called him daniel the brave
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we were living in a shack behind a navajo grave
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i woke one morning to a rope and some words on a sheet
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she was hangin and the note read "babe, i'm just countin sheep
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and when i get to 100, in heaven we'll meet"
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i think love is the strangest creation
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i could dream to know
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now me and daniel travel with the wind at our backs
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sleepin out on freight beds, sharin bread from my pack
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i don't now about religion but i'd like to believe
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that if there's a heaven she's waiting for me
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where the trucks all drive fast and the mileage is free
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i think love is the strangest creation
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i could dream to know