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Short Native Grasses (Prairies Of Alberta)
Corb Lund

You can fail to achieve what you'd always believed

You were capable of from the start

You can lose all you have on the gambling avenue

An' you'll know nothing true of your heart

You can see and be seen with those holes in your jeans

But the prairies won't know what it means


Chorus:

The prairies of Alberta, they ain't never hearda

The things that are keepin' you down

And the short native grasses don't care that the ashes

Of your dreams match their dry shade of brown


You can follow the call out to olde Montreal

It may feel like you'll never get back

You can do what you want on Boulevard St. Laurent

It may feel like you've slipped through the crack

You can see and be seen with those holes in your jeans

And the prairies won't know what it means


Chorus


When you fail to remember the gifts of September

And all that's left's a manila, grass rope

And that clean, country wedding that you thought you'd be getting

Seems delayed beyond reasonable hope

You can see and be seen with those holes in your jeans

And the prairies won't know what it means


You can see and be seen

With those holes in your jeans

And the prairies won't know what it means


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