| Hitcher on the back road, man with his guitar
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| Said take me to the crossroads, crossroads ain’t that far
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| He said he come up from the delta, He said he liked my car
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| He told me on the way there, he was born in sin
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| What else is new?
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| I said I ride that road yeah and, I know just where you been
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| I don’t know where I’m headed, I can’t go back again
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| You tell me what you got now, I’ll tell you what you’ve lost
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| Tell me what you bought now, tell me what it cost
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| Look out of your window, gone like morning frost
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| You know I took him to the crossroad, I took him down that day
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| Left him at the crossroads, saw him kneel and pray
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| In my rearview mirror, I watched him fade away
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| You know back in town they’re talking, they say he sold his soul
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| They say he died for nothing, they dumped him in the hole
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| You know they’re talking, say they dumped in a hole
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| He must be burning they say, burning black as coal
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| I said they don’t know nothing, they don’t know that man’s blood
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| I say I saw that man rise from Mississippi mud
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| I said that man was clean, as Jack from Jordan’s flood
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| He went down to the crossroad, and fell down on his knees
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| Yes Lord above have mercy, he said save poor Bobby if you please
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| He sure is star in heaven, burning 'bove the seas
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| He sure is star in heaven, burning bright above the seas |