Ballad Of Sally Rose Lyrics - Emmylou Harris

Her mama picked him up in south Minnesota 

He promised her the world but they never got that far 

For he was last seen in that '59 DeSota 

When Sally was born in the black hills of Dakota. 

She was washed in the blood of the dying Sioux nation 

Raised with a proud but a wandering heart 

And she knew that her roots were in the old reservation 

But she had stars in her eyes and greater expectations. 

No rings on her fingers, no bells on her toes 

With bugs on her headlights and runs in her hose 

Through the valley of the shadow of Roosevelt's nose 

Adios South Dakota, adios Sally Rose. 

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They've got a national monument carved out of stone 

On the side of a mountain where her forefathers roamed 

Playin' cowboys and Indians right under the nose 

Of Theodore Roosevelt and the sweet Sally Rose. 

So she left Rapid City in the blue moonlight hour 

With her eye on the highway and her foot on the floor 

And turnin' the dial, she was pulled by the power 

Of the word coming out of that broadcasting tower. 

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No rings on her fingers, no bells on her toes 

With bugs on her headlights and runs in her hose 

Through the valley of the shadow of Roosevelt's nose 

Adios South Dakota, adios Sally Rose...