Nellie Kane

As a young man I went riding out on the western plain

In the state of North Dakota I met my Nellie Kane

I met my Nellie Kane

She was living in a lonely cabin with a son by another man

Five years she had waited for him as long as a woman can

As long as a woman can

I don't know what changed my mind

'Til then I was the rambling kind

The kind of love I can't explain

That I had for Nellie Kane

She hired me on to work that day to help her till the land

In the afternoon we planted seeds in the evening we held hands

In the evening we held hands

Her blue eyes told me everything a man could want to know

It was then I realized that I would never go

That I would never go

Now many years have gone by and her son has grown up tall

I became a father to him and she became my all

She became my all