| Lord, that weeping willow, and that mourning dove.
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| That weeping willow and that mourning dove.
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| I got a gal up the country, Lord, you know I sure do love.
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| Now, if you see my woman tell her I says hurry home (Aw shucks!)
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| You see my woman, tell her I says hurry home I ain’t had no lovin' since my
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| girl been gone.
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| Where it ain’t no love mama ain’t no gitt’n' along.
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| Where it ain’t no love mama ain’t no gitt’n' along.
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| My gal treats me so mean and dirty, sometime I don’t know right from wrong.
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| Lord, I lied down last night, tried to take my rest.
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| I lied down last night, tried to take my rest (what happened, boy?)
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| You know my mind got to ramblin' just like wild gees in the west.
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| Gwin’a buy me a bulldog, watch you whils' I sleep.
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| Gonna buy me a bulldog, watch you whils' I sleep.
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| Just to keep these men from making this early mornin' creep. |
| Now,
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| if you see my woman tell her I says hurry home.
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| You see my woman, tell her I says hurry home I ain’t had no lovin' since my
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| little girl been gone.
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| You gwine want my love, baby some lonesome day (yeah!).
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| You’re gonna want my love, mama, some old lonesome day.
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| And it’ll be too late, I’ll be gone too far away. |