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Album: 25th Anniversary
The wealthiest rancher in Texas
Was throwing a grand jubilee
To honor his son, who'd just turned twenty-one
And was visiting down from the east
It was rumored he wanted to marry
So every girl in the county was there
But soon he grew tired of their fashion and their pride
And he stepped outside for some air
It was there on the back step that he saw her
And the moonlight shone down on her face
She was washing the floor and stealing
His poor heart away
He knew he would love her forever
As they walked beneath the dark Texas sky
He knelt as he asked her to marry
Then he watched as the tears sprang from her eyes
And he feared she was going to refuse him
So he bid her, "Please don't make a sound
I am leaving tonight for Chicago
I must ride before the snow lies on the ground
But I'm going there to build for you a mansion
And returning, I'll make you my wife
Meet me here by the stables
One year from tonight"
She worked long days in the kitchen
Then she worked with her needle each night
'Till the day she walked down to the stables
In a beautiful gown of pure white
Then the girls all laughed and they mocked her
As the evening shadows fell
But their laughter was turned into silence
At the sound of the carriage on the trail
The bride has made herself ready
Look now, for the bridegroom is nigh
On to the marriage, step up in
The carriage and ride
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