N Dakota

Intro:   C   A#   F   (x4)


Verse:

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Train death paintings, anti-meth mural

F
Color the ghettos of North Dakota

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Bismark tractor association, coffee and toothpaste, This was vacation

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I saw, while squinting, the hidden layer

F
In those lost-era grain elevators

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Feudal beginnings, amber wave looseness

F
Post-Nordic grinning, tired and toothless



Bridge:  C   A#   F  (x2)



Verse:

C              A#
Cigarette advertisement country

F
Wild and perfect, but lacking something

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In Manitoba they called it boring

F
At night we hum to Canada's snoring

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Westbound taken, exiled Texan

F
From a former Dutch trade encampment

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Former slave quarters tucked by the alley

F
Serf population too high to tally