So I turned and came right back.
Riding home along the Solomon,--
For the truth I pledge my word--
I met Billy with his horses
Three miles east of Mingo's Ford.
Stopped and shook my hand and told me
He was so far on his way
To a ranch 'way up in Utah,
Where he'd made his plans to stay.


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"'Said he wanted to be friendly,
So the things that he had left,
If I cherished no hard feelings,
I could look on as his gift.
"If you come across Miss Nancy
You can say to her for me,
That I've got another sweetheart,
And that she is wholly free."
Billy'd never do to tie to--
He's too fickle, gal, for you--
So I just propose to offer
You a man that will stay true.
I have worked it out, Miss Nancy--
It's the problem of my life;
I have planned that you shall stay here
As my own dear little wife.'