th Fret
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Her father was a man who knew no fences
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Her mother was a woman of the trail
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But Jenny Wind was born into a new world
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When the white man came
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Jenny was taught the old ways
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And she learned to speak her father's tongue
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When she died, she was one of the last ones
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And the earth covered up her bones
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Jenny Wind was born a wild thing
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A sister to coyote and the sun
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But they gave her a dress of calico
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And they named her Jenny Wind
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But the white man's ways, they followed her
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She was buried 'neath a marker made of stone
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And on her grave they carved her pretty name
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"Here lies the Indian, Jenny Wind"
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But they say her soul flies free
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Caring for the weary and the lost
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In the forest deep and quiet
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All around the grave of Jenny Wind
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I met Jenny on a summer night
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Walking in the Placer County
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I stumbled on her grave in the forest there
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So all alone and still
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I wondered if she cared that I found her
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Lying so hidden and alone
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I wondered who she was before they named her
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"The Indian, Jenny Wind"
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The silence grew till it touched me
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And held me like the words upon the stone
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And for the first time I was afraid
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I would not find my way home
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I ran from her as the night grew darker
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I dropped my glasses and I took a fall
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Lost and blind, somehow I found them
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Lying folded on her grave so small
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And I believe that her soul flies free
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And it cares for the weary and the lost
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In the forest deep and quiet
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All around the grave of Jenny Wind