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Nine miles of two-strand topped with barbed wire  
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laid by the father for the son.  
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Good shelter down there on the valley floor,  
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down by where the sweet stream run.  
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Now  they might give me compensation...  
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That's not what I'm chasing.  
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I was a rich man before yesterday.  
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Now all I have got is a cheque and a pickup truck.  
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I left my farm on the freeway.  
   

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They're busy building airports on the south side...  
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Silicon chip factory on the east.  
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And the big road's pushing through along the valley floor.  
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Hot machine pouring six lanes at the very least.  
 

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Now  they might give me compensation...  
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That's not what I'm chasing.  
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I was a rich man before yesterday.  
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 Now all I have left is a broken-down pickup truck. 
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 Looks like my farm is a freeway.  
  

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They forgot they told us what this old land was for.  
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Grow two tons the acre, boy, between the stones.  
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This was no Southfork, it was no Ponderosa. 
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 But it was the place that I called home.  
 

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Now  they might give me compensation...  
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That's not what I'm chasing.  
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I was a rich man before yesterday.  
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And what do I want with a million dollars and a pickup truck?  
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When I left my farm under the freeway.