| The river is deep and the river is wide
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| And the girl that I love is on the other side
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| She wants to move to Kansas City
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| Move to Kansas City
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| Move, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue
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| She’s walking down Ellum, turning down Main
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| Trying to find someone to sell her cocaine
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| She wants to move to Kansas City
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| Move to Kansas City
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| Move, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue
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| With a dayful of promises dead on her lips
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| Mark 15:34 tucked next to her hip
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| She wants to move to Kansas City
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| Move to Kansas City
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| Move, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue
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| Well, I jumped in the water and started to drown
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| I thought of her walking and turned back around
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| I want to move to Kansas City
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| Move to Kansas
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| I want, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue
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| With her pair of old wings that opened just once
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| She can walk on two feet now, she can go where she wants
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| She can even move to Kansas City
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| Move to Kansas City
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| Move, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue
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| And I’ll tell you one thing that you should never do
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| Never let no woman tell you she loves you
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| Sure she’ll call you «baby», she’ll look in your eye
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| Then she’ll get on that airplane and wave bye bye bye bye bye bye
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| Bye bye baby, baby bye bye
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| Bye Bye baby, so long next time
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| So long next time
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| And if I could believe what I want to believe
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| I’d hold you all close and take you with me
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| All of you to Kansas City
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| You to Kansas City
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| And me, yeah, where the sky is so blue |