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- Have you heard of "Big Alex" MacDonald -
- who hasn't, I'd like to know?
- Once who helped the "dead broke" fellow,
- Old Timers will tell you so;
- A nobleman of nature, a man with a heart
- of gold,
- The lips of the miners living, in remembrance
- this man hold.
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- Have you heard of "Big Alex" MacDonald
- who crossed the Great Divide,
- A friend to the sourdough friendless, to better
- days his guide?
- Ah, here was a chap worth knowing, a he-man
- born and bred
- Was "Big Alex" of Nova Scotia, whose soul
- has westward sped.
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