The Ballad of Sally Rose - Demo

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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 DeSoto
 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
 They've got a national monument carved out of stone
 On the side of a mountain where her forefathers roamed
 Playing 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 turning the dial, she was pulled by the power
 Of the word coming out of the broadcasting tower
 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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Duration
02:18
Key
9
Tempo
78 BPM

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