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So wantonly, so needlessly, so cruelly did they
They cast them out, with a curse and a shout, to die on the cold prairie

Wyoming has a dreadful place and Rock Springs Is Its name
So many graves beneath the sky and no one takes the blame

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It was In 1885 such a pitiful sight to see
When miners' guns became the law to kill the heathen Chine

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It Is great sport to burn them out that was the miners' cry
But I could not shoot another man Just to see him fall and die

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Come all you men of Christian faith and listen unto me
No man can break the laws of God and still a Christian be

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* Note: This song was written In 1981 about the Rock Spring Massacre, when all the Chinese were taken to the edge of town and killed. The tune Is "Macpherson' lament," a traditional Scottish tune.