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Don't Fence Me In
Words & Music by Cole PorterRecorded by Bing Crosby & The Andrews sisters, 1944
From the movie "Hollywood Canteen"
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Oh, give me land, lots of land under star - ry skies above --
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Don't fence me in.
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Let me ride through the wide open country that I love --
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Don't fence me in.
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Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze,
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And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees;
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Send me off forever but I ask you please,
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Don't fence me in.
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Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
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Underneath the western skies
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On my cayuse, let me wander over yonder
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Till I see the mountains rise
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I want to ride to the ridge where the West com - men - ces,
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And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses;
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I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences --
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Don't fence me in.
*Thanks to recent visitor Roy Thomas.