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               *Promontory Rider*
 
       Promontory Rider
       what makes you ride so high?
       To put a loving star 
       back in an empty sky
       Once the wind was warm and sweet, 
       the ladies all in lace
       But up there on the prominence 
       the tears just freeze your face
       Promontory Rider - Territory Ranger... Step up
       
       Found a stack of blank pictures
       A passport out of Hell
       Left here by a stranger
       Seemed to wish me well
       Signed Promontory Rider
       Territory Ranger
       Asking: Can you thread a needle?  
       Can you shoot the moon?
       Walk the silver screen
       to your judgement at High Noon
       like any Promontory Rider? Territory Ranger... step up.
 
       Ride on, ride on, ride
 
       Ride upon the high ground,
       ride upon the low
       Promontory Rider 
       what makes you ride so slow?
       Fit me out with heart and wings 
       and fill my head with crowns
       I been crawlin' up this hill
       but now I'm rollin' down
       Promontory Rider - Territory Ranger...  Step up
 
       Promontory Rider 
       you used to ride so high
       I don't know these days 
       just seem to ride on by
       Once the wind was warm and sweet
       but this must be your taste
       You don't change this chilly range
       for any other place
       Promontory Rider-Territory Ranger
       Ride on, ride on... Step up
 
       Moving on the high ground, moving on the low ground
       Promontory Rider stepping so high now... Step up!
 
       Promontory Rider
       what made you ride so high?
       "to pluck a loving star
       from out an empty sky"
       But Promontory Rider 
       that was many years ago.
       Movin' on the high ground, 
       movin' on the low
 
       Promontory Rider, ride on, ride on
       Territory Ranger, ride on, ride
       Step right up and put that loving star
       right back inside that empty sky
       Promontory Rider, ride on, ride on
       Territory Ranger.... Step up
 
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*1* (Source: Robert Hunter, _Box of Rain_ (1st edition), pp. 172-173)
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