- California Dates
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- Sam Bass once had some tuna, up
near Monterey
- rode his horse to Riverside, to
eat an orange one day
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- then told a friend named Pawnee
Bill, "I'd best be on my way."
- Bill said, "Sam, before you go
back to Texas, stay
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- I know a place where dates are
served on a silver tray."
- Scratching his head and thinking,
he saddled up his bay
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- Isn't that what Ali Baba ate,
after an exciting fray?
- Visions of an oasis, lots of dates
and desert play
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- led Sam and Bill to Indio, via
train, the Santa Fe.
- But the sheriff said, "Sorry boys,
leave without delay."
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- Back to Texas they went riding, no
taste of dates that day.
- Ahead lay cold corn fritters, that
was the outlaw way.
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- Left behind, that California, and
dates upon a tray.
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