| How long, how long, has that evenin' train been gone?
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| How long, how long, baby how long
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| Heard the whistle blowin', couldn’t see the train
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| Way down in my heart I had an achin' pain
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| How long, how long, how long
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| If I could holler like a mountain jack
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| I’d go up on the mountain and call my baby back
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| I went up on the mountain, looked as far as I could see
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| The man had my woman and the blues had poor me
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| I can see the green grass growin' on the hill
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| But I ain’t seen the green grass on a dollar bill
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| I’m goin' down to Georgia, been up in Tennessee
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| So look me over baby, last you’ll see of me
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| The brook runs into the river, river runs into the sea
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| If I don’t run into my baby, a train is goin' to run into me |