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Where the West Begins

from Dakota Arms by Tom Schroeder

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Seymour's bus trip.

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A makeshift church, a grocery store
Organ music for the poor
A cola sign above the door
Where the West begins

Cowboy joints and neon lights
The edge of town where commerce fights
With sagebrush and the Texas night
Where the West Begins

Fort Worth, Texas to Fargo, North Dakota
Trip he's made a dozen times before

Seymour let his seat fall back
Face against the window glass
He watched the broken pavement pass
Where the West begins

Seymour closed his heavy eyes
Saw his path, one long straight line
And endless cornfield, harvest time
Where the West begins

Fort Worth, Texas to Fargo, North Dakota
Trip he's made a dozen times before

The day is done for country folk
In Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma
Iowa and South Dakota
Where the West begins

And there's another evening passed
From gray through ocean blues to black
You'll never get your childhood back
Where the West begins

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from Dakota Arms, track released April 13, 1991
vocals

Tom Schroeder
Marisue Schuiling
Dave Kapell
Jim Clifford

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