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Black Cowboys - Bruce Springsteen





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Raney William's playground was among Haven's streets

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Where he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths

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Names and photos of the young black faces

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Whose death and blood consecrated these places

  



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Raney's mother said Raney stay at my side

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For you are my blessing, you are my pride

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It's your love here that keeps my soul alive

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I want you to come home from school and stay inside



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Raney do his work and put his books away

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There was a channel showed a Western movie everyday

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And that brought him home books of the black cowboys of the Oklahoma range

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The Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Great Plains





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 Summer come and the days grew long

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 Raney always had his mother's smile to depend on

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 Along the street of stray bullets he made his way

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 To the warmth of her arms at the end of each day



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Come the Fall, the rain flooded these homes

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In Ezekiel's valley of dry bones

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It fell hard and dark to the ground

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It fell without a sound





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And they took up with a man whose business was the boulevard

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Whose smile was fixed in a face that was never off guard

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By the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his secrets are kept

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In the day, behind drawn curtains in the next bedroom he slept





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 And she got lost in the days

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 The smile Raney depended on dusted away

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 The arms that held him were no more his own

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 He lay at night his head pressed to a chest listening to the ghost in her bones



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In the kitchen, Raney slipped his hand between the pipes

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>From a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills and stuck it in his coat side

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Stood in the dark at his mother's bed

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Brushed her hair and kissed her eyes



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In the twilight Raney walked to the station on streets of stone

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Through Pennsylvania and Ohio his train drifted on

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Through the small towns of Indiana the big train crept

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As he lay his head back on his seat and slept



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He woke and the towns gave way to muddy fields of green

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Corn and cotton and endless nothing in between

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Over the rutted hills of Oklahoma the red sun slipped and was gone

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The moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone





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and fade out