Lyrics Cairo, IL - Natalie Hemby

Cairo, IL

All the fields are flooded up to highway 51
All the lawyer’s coming ‘cross the bridge where the old Ohio runs
Don’t look away it will be gone
Kentucky and Missouri, a trinity of states
Nothing’s in a hurry ‘cept the water in between the rising banks
Oh nothing moves but nothing stays
Where the longing for the leaving and the welcome home receiving join
Still I keep driving past the ghost of Cairo Illinois
She used to be a beauty back in 1891
After ford defines now she’s weathered by the river and the sun
She’s still around but she is gone
Where the longing for the leaving and the welcome home receiving join
Still I keep driving past the ghost of Cairo Illinois
Where the longing for the leaving and the welcome home receiving join
Still I keep driving past the ghost of Cairo Illinois
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