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Dedicated To Alaska

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The home of the tin can and dog,     A waste of snow, ice, and moss.     The graveyard of ambitions,     The by-word for hell,     The home of the famed double cross.     Men come here for gold,     Ambitious for wealth     They stick--for they can't get away,     They dig, drink, and die,     And then go to hell,     To pay for their last sucker play--     ALASKA

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