When I was twelve, my mom and I

Left New York for California sky

Dad had gone, it was Mom and me

In our Chevrolet, two-part harmony

The car broke down west of Omaha

We settled down, Mom got a job





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Oh, Nebraska

Oh, Nebraska

Oh, Nebraska

Oh, Nebraska





Don't feel sorry for me

I fell in love in the usual way

With a flat-eyed boy on his flatbed truck

When the baby was born, he sent a card that said Good Luck

And some flowers; I live with Mom upstairs

And our best friend Kate who never goes anywhere



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I work the graveyard shift at a restaurant

Somewhere out on 281

A stranger came into the place

And said she saw a sunset in my face



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