Mark Knopfler - Prairie Wedding

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we only knew each other by a letter
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i went to meet her off the train
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when the smoke had cleared and the dust was still
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she was standing there and speaking my name

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i guarantee she looked like an angel
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i couldn’t think of what i should say
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but when adam saw eve in the garden
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i believe he felt the selfsame way

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i handed her up on the wagon
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and i loaded up her trunk behind
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she was sitting up there with the gold in her hair
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and i tried to get a hold of my mind

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do you think that you could love me mary
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do you think we got a chance of a life
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do you think that you could love me mary
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now you are to be my wife

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we finally headed out of the station
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and we drove up the home trail
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and when we came on the farm she laid a hand on my arm
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i thought my resolution would fail

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and i froze as she stepped in the doorway
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stood there as still as could be
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i said i know it ain’t much , it needs a woman’s touch
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lord she turned around and looked at me

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do you think that you could love me mary
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do you think we got a chance of a life
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do you think that you could love me mary
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now you are to be my wife

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we had a prairie wedding
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there was a preacher and a neighbor or two
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i gave my golden thing a gold wedding ring
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and the both of us said i do

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when the sun’s going down on the prairie
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and the gold in her hair is aflame
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i say do you really love me mary
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and i hold her and i whisper her name

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do you think that you could love me mary
F D# F
do you think we got a chance of a life
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do you think that you could love me mary
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now you are to be my wife