| I’m gonna give you thirty days to get back home
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| I done called up the gypsy woman on the telephone
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| She gonna send out a world wide hoodoo
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| That’ll be the very thing that’ll suit you
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| I’m gonna see that you be back home in thirty days
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| Oh thirty days (thirty days)
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| Oh thirty days (thirty days)
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| Baby, I’m gonna see that you’ll be back home in thirty days
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| Gonna send out a world wide hoodoo
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| That’ll be the very thing that’ll suit you
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| I’m gonna see that you’ll be back home in thirty days
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| I done talked to the judge in private early this morning
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| And he took me to the sheriff’s office to sign a warrant
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| Gonna put a cross charge agin' ya
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| That’ll be the very thing that’ll send ya
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| I’m gonna see that you’ll be back home in thirty days
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| Oh thirty days (thirty days)
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| Oh thirty days (thirty days)
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| I’m gonna see that you’ll be back home in thirty days
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| Gonna put a cross charge agin' ya
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| That’ll be the very thing that’ll send ya
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| I’m gonna see that you’ll be back home in thirty days
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| If I don’t get no satisfaction from the judge
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| I’m gonna take it to the FBI and voice my grudge
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| If they don’t give me no consolation
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| I’m gonna take it to the United Nations
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| I’m gonna see that you’ll be back home in thirty days
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| Oh thirty days (thirty days)
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| Oh thirty days (thirty days)
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| Baby I’m gonna see that you’ll be back home in thirty days
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| You don’t give me no consolation
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| I’m gonna take it to the United Nations
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| I’m gonna see that you’ll be back home in thirty days |