| In the morning, baby, just for a day
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| Someone will get me and take me away!
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| I’m gonna leave you baby, goin' down to Steamboat Tennessee
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| I’m gonna leave you baby, goin' down to Steamboat Tennessee
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| 'Cause it’s the last time you’re a-gonna crease up bedsheets with me!
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| Your New York lights shine so nice and bright
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| Your New York lights shine so nice and bright
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| I’d rather be down home, walkin' by the lantern light!
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| They say the time’s a-comin' when a woman won’t need a man
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| They say the time’s a-comin' when a woman won’t need a man
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| I’m gonna keep that time from comin' if I can!
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| Folks up here say I’m strange and queer
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| Folks up here say I’m strange and queer
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| I made 'em stay out of my garden, can’t plant no cucumbers here!
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| Don’t have to be no fortune teller to read what’s on any man’s mind
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| Don’t have to be no fortune teller to read what’s on any man’s mind
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| And I’m glad to be goin', and I ain’t leavin' too much behind!
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| And I’m glad to be goin', and I ain’t leavin' too much behind! |