Nellie Kane Lyrics - Tim O'brien

As a young man I went riding out on the western plain 

In the state of North Dokota I met my Nelie Kane, I met my Nellie Kane 

She was living in a lonely cabin with a son by another man 

Five years she had waited for him 

As long as a woman can, as long as a woman can 

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I don't know what changed my mind 

'Til then I was the ramblin kind 

The kind of love I can't explain 

That I have for Nellie Kane 

Well she took me on to work that day, to help her till the land 

In the afternoon we planted seeds 

In the evening we held hands, in the evening we held hands 

Her blue eyes told me everything a man could want to know 

And it was then I realized that I would never go, I would never go 

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Now many years have gone by, her son has grown up tall 

I became a father to him and she became my all, she became my all 

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