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We started out from Bern one sunny August morn
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there was just the four of us against the Matterhorn
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there was Albert the Australian and John the Irishman
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me and Bill from Britain mad dogs in the sun.
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Matterhorn Matterhorn
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men have tried and men have died to climb the Matterhorn
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that mighty Matterhorn.
Two miles up we lost John and the ration fell below
Al and Bill were laying beneath an avalanche of snow
now here I am all alone and I know I cannot stop
two more yards in front of me before I reach the top.
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Now here I am a-dying upon the Matterhorn
not a grave for me to lie in not a thing to keep me warm
the Queen would surely knight me if I could get back down
but it's closer here to heaven than it is back to the ground.
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