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