Western Girl

Looking out from the window of a train
With a letter in her hand, from some folks she'd never seen
Watching as the cold Ohio rain
Promised Springtime to the land,
The fingers of the trees just turning green.

She was strong from hard work all her days
In the orphanage as a child, an adoption left behind
Westward steel rails carry her away
To a land that seems so wild,
Only dime novels tell her what she'd find

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Far away in Western Colorado
The Rocky Mountains are a different world
She didn't know there'd be a handsome cowboy
Didn't know she'd soon be a Western girl

On the Rockwell Ranch they courted several years
The foreman in his chaps, and the hired girl from back East
He proposed and the bunkhouse rang with cheers
They thought that just perhaps
They'd live happy ever after, at the least

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They were married in September of '16
In a house where once she'd stayed, there were friends that she once knew
The Ohio hills they seemed so green
So different from the gray of the Colorado sage
They'd go back to

Looking out the window of the train
With a ring on her hand, and her cowboy by her side
Watching as the Colorado plains
Rose to mountains from the land
The aspens and her new life as a bride

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She didn't know she'd soon be a Western Girl