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Posted By: GUEST,Newfiegirl
26-May-07 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: the mercury was twenty-four below
Subject: Lyr Req: the mercury was twenty-four below
Can anybody help me with the Two missing verses in this song Thanks.
TWENTY FOUR BELOW
An old Nebraska Pioneer lay dying on the platePlatte. There was lack of women's nursing but he did not care for that A cowboy knelt beside him in the north winds icy breath And he whispered words of comfort as he slowly froze to death.
I have lived here thirty years or more, the man went on to say But I never saw such weather, like the weather is today I've been caught out in blizzards I should think a score or more I always got home safely I never froze before.
Tell my wife if you can find her for she left some years ago She can have the valley section and the bloody stock there on She's welcome to the homestead just this side a broken bow You can tell her that the mercury was twenty-four below.
The old man stopped speaking , sure he breathed once or twice His breath was gone forever, he lay still upon the ice The poleman rose up slowly, and the north wind ceased to blow The weather man reported it was twenty- four below.