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Romany.

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The city frets in the distance, lass,         The city so grim and gray,     A glare in the sky by night, my lass,         And a blot on the sky by day;     But we are out on the long white road,         And under the wide free sky,     And the song that was born in my heart today         Will sing there till I die.     The long white road and the wide free sky,         And the city far away;     A good-night kiss in the twilight, lass,         And a kiss at the break of day;     For light are the loads we bear, my lass,         By highway and hill and grove,     And the sunlight is all for life, my lass,         And the starlight all for love.

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"The city frets in the distance, lass,..."

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