Tom:
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Nineteen hundred and oh-one
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There beneath the August sun
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A daring survey undertaken on the fly
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Colorado would request
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Divert the river water west
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For the Uncompahgre Valley was too dry
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There&rsquo d been one attempt before
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And they needed to know more
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Than what Bryant saw from base camps on the rim
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When the challenge whet their thirst
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Two men planned to be the first
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To take the canyon floor route cut from deep within
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There's only one way the water flows
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Through a passage no one knows
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Heading down the canyon black
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They could never turn their back
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Staring down the barrel of the Gunnison
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The journey started as they planned
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With support from a third man
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Who hiked the old trail high above the river&rsquo s hood
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&rsquo Til they came upon a narrow
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At the jaws of the Falls of Sorrow
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With one way out, they took the only way they could
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Diving deep into the churn
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Maybe never to return
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The pair could only hope to breathe the air again
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The angry river turned and tossed
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And the two might have been lost
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Deep below the surface of the Gunnison
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There's only one way the water flows
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Through a passage no one knows
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Heading down the canyon black
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They could never turn their back
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Staring down the barrel of the Gunnison
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Gunnison...
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Now the story has been told
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And while the river still runs cold
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The water gets to where it once had never been
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As for whether they escaped
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They made it out just bruised and scraped
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The two men never would forget the Gunnison
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There's only one way the water flows
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Through a passage no one knows
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Heading down the canyon black
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They could never turn their back
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Staring down the barrel of the Gunnison
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Staring down the barrel of the Gunnison