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[Verse 1]
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Come listen and I’ll tell a tale of hardy canyoneers
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That breed of men the river rats who live without the fears
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Of common ordinary men whose worries sure are small
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Compared to those who flirt with death within that high grey wall
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What’s in a man to make him thirst for the kind of life he knows is cursed?
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He’ll die a lonely river rat, foolhardy canyoneer
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[Verse 2]
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Do you ever wonder what you’d do when all the chips were down
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If you doubt you’d do what a man would do when danger comes around
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Then take the test to prove the case to see if courage calls
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As waves leap thirty feet or more on the trip through Lava Falls
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What’s in a man to make him thirst for the kind of life he knows is cursed?
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He’ll die a lonely river rat, foolhardy canyoneer
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[Verse 3]
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At night at rest on a rocky beach he hears a hairy sigh
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Of the lonely phantom of the gorge whose mournful voices cry
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Although we ran the rapids wild and with our lives did pay
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We welcome you, you canyoneers, who come this dismal way
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What’s in a man to make him thirst for the kind of life he knows is cursed?
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He’ll die a lonely river rat, foolhardy canyoneer
[Outro]
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