text: As a young man I went riding
  Out on the western plain
  In the state of North Dakota
  I met my Nellie Kane
  I met my Nellie Kane
  She was living in a lonely cabin
  With a son by another man
  Five years she had waited for him
  As long as a woman can
  As long as a woman can
  I dont know what changed my mind
  Til then I was the ramblin kind
  The kind of love I cant explain
  That I had for Nellie Kane
  She took me on to work that day
  To help her till the land
  In the afternoon we planted seeds
  In the evening we held hands
  In the evening we held hands
  Her blue eyes told me everything
  A man could want to know
  And it was then I realized
  I would never goI would never go
  Now many years have gone by
  And her son has grown up tall
  I became a father to him
  And she became my all
  She became my all