North by Northwest

NORTH BY NORTHWEST

“Suddenly you’re left with 
nothing but your life and 
the past.”—Robert Rebein
Dragging Wyatt Earp: A 
Personal History of Dodge City
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I said I’d never come back—
taking the swank Super Chief

Outta town like Cary Grant—
North by Northwest 
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Making love in Jill St. John’s—
compartment all the way

Past the Illinois cornfields—
fast thru the wheatfields
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Never to return I said—
but then, of course, well

I never really left did I—
no flights outta Wichita?
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Couldn’t ever escape—
the lonely Fly Over State

My past still always—
dragging Commercial Street?