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I met a girl from Manitoba
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Where the wind is wild on the Hudson Bay
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She could've been from Oklahoma
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If she didn't live so far away
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Prairie girl I read your letters
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As I stood by the tracks of the C.P.R.
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Every word just like a tear drop
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Every stain, a broken heart
Chorus:
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Maple tears in the letters she sends
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Red like the dirt in the Tulsa wind
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Sweet like cane on the delta bed
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Oh them maple tears in the letters she sends
Solo
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I been inside ten thousand barrooms
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From Winnipeg on down to New Orleans
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I seen the arms of that big old river
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Stretching far out to the sea
Chorus:
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Maple tears in the letters she sends
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Red like the dirt in the Tulsa wind
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Sweet like cane on the delta bed
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Oh them maple tears in the letters she sends
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Oh them maple tears in the letters she sends
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I met a girl from Manitoba
