Key: D
Introduction:
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The House stood on the outskirts of an old ghost town,
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I brushed aside the cobwebs, walked in and looked around.
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I found a dusty diary, beside a worn out bed.
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Dated eighteen eighty two and this is what it said.
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This town has seven blacksmiths, twenty five saloons,
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Thirty seven churches and two hundred hotel rooms.
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More longhorn Texas cattle than I have ever seen
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and the finest little cathouse this side of New Orleans.
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In the house of negotiable affections.
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Every cowboy is as special as the next one.
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All the ladies are so lovely, with their painted on complexions.
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At the house of negotiable affections.
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There's a few old cowboy bones, but mostly ghostly apparitions.
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In the house of negotiable affections.