| Well, I’ve been a traveler most of my life
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| Never took a home, never took a wife
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| Ran away young and decided to roam
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| Wanna see my mama and my daddy back home
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| Home, where the river runs cold
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| The water tastes good, the winters ain’t cold
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| Home, where the trees grow tall
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| The home fires burn, the whippoorwills call
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| I remember stories that my daddy used to tell
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| My eyes would get big, and his chest would swell
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| I could sit for hours and listen with glee
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| As he’d tell of how he lived when he’s a boy like me
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| REPEAT CHORUS
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| Well, mama dear, mama do you still love your boy
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| After all my roamin' can I still bring you joy
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| Mom sent a letter, got it not long ago
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| She said «come home, I’m missin' you so |