| She would sit alone by the bank
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| Always coming home so late
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| She’d take off all her clothes and jump in
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| I’d be giving up man if she’d be giving in
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| Baby let me dry your hair
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| I got some clothes that you can wear
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| Over there on the bed
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| And I’d always forgive her, but the
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| Mississippi
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| River never did
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| She’d sit out on the dock and put her feet in
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| She was skipping rocks and she was skipping
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| School again
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| She stole my only cigarettes, she smoked the
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| Whole pack one by one, light em up and
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| Put em to her lips
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| And I’d always forgive her but the Mississippi
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| River never did
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| She was always running away
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| No matter how hard I tried, she would
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| Never stay, and I wish that she would run
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| To me
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| Like the Mississippi river, is running
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| Towards the sea
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| And now my poor heart is on the mend
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| And I’ll always be with her, because the
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| Mississippi river never ends
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| I’ll always be with her because the Mississippi river never ends |