"When I Stake My Claim" genre: Rock
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	A gold rush tale of lost opportunity. Opening track of the Ashland album.
	CD: Ashland
	Lyrics When I Stake My Claim Words & Music by Jason Chervokas c. 1999 Jason Chervokas Stumbling down a gravel road with a pick ax in my hand. Gonna hit the vein this time & rest these working hands. Don't you know salvation's waiting at the bottom of a sifting pan. When I stake my claim I'm gonna fly away, I'm gonna leave this broken land. Kissed my girl & said goodbye to Annabelle Lee. Gonna have a new suit of clothes the next time they lay eyes on me. Now I'm three days in these mountains & I've got nothing but sand-- but when I stake my claim I'm gonna fly away, I'm gonna leave this broken land. Oh you angels in the pines c'mon, whisper, whisper. I'm just dying on the vine-- does it always have to be nothing but fool's gold for me? Heard about a place one time where the diamonds grow on vines-- pick the gold right off the trees & never have to work the mines. Now the winter's on the wind & if I die here in this cold, when I wake up on the other side you know that's where I want to go.

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