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Lyrics for The Ballad Of Alferd Packer by Phil Ochs:
| | | Artist: | Phil Ochs |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | The Ballad Of Alferd Packer | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 61 | | | | Lyrics: | In the state of Colorado
In the year of seventy-four
They crossed the San Juan
Mountains
Growing hungry to the core.
Their guide was Alferd Packer
And they trusted him
too long:
For his character was weak
And his appetite was strong.
They called
him a murderer, a cannibal, a thief;
It just doesn't pay to eat anything but
Government-inspected beef.
Along the Gunnison River
An Indian camp they spied.
An
Indian chief approached them,
To stop them he did try.
He warned them of the danger
In
the snow that lay around,
But the danger was in Packer,
For his hunger knew now
bound.
They called him a murderer, a cannibal, a thief;
It just doesn't pay to
eat anything but Government-inspected beef.
Two cold months went slowly by;
Packer came
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