I came to town
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To search for gold
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And I brought with me
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A memory
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And I seemed to hear
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The night wind cry
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Go hang your dreams on the hanging tree
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Your dreams of love that could never be
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Hang your faded dreams on the hanging tree
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I searched for gold (at the hanging tree)
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And I found my gold (at the hanging tree)
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And I found a girl (and I found a girl)
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Who loved just me (and she loved just me)
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And I wished that I could love her too
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But I'd left my heart on the hanging tree
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I'd left my heart with a memory
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And a faded dream on the hanging tree
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Now there were men
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Who craved my gold
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And they meant to take my gold from me
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When a man is gone
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He needs no gold
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So they carried me to the hanging tree
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To join my dreams and a memory
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Yes they carried me to-o the hanging tree
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To really live you must almost die
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And it happened just that way with me
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They took the gold and they set me free
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And I walked away from the hanging tree
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I walked away from the hanging tree
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And my own true love
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Oh yes, she walked with me
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That's when I knew that the hanging tree
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Was a tree of life, new life for me
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A tree of hope, new hope for me
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A tree of love, new love for me
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The hanging tree
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The hanging tree
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The hanging tree
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Hanging Tree
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| Frankie Laine |
