| Well it’s a real nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live here
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| It’s a damn nice place to be, and they really make you give here
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| Children run around in the street with dirty feet, I can’t repeat what they say
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| I gave my lovin' to a woman last night and never known it, 'til today
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| Something’s got to change my way of thinking 'bout the money I’m spending after
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| I been drinking, lordy
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| I really wouldn’t live here
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| I really wouldn’t live here
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| You pay a real high price for something that is nice when you get here
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| But something rotten on the side has got to ruin your pride after you’ve been
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| here
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| Ten or twelve women who have gone astray, they’re living only for the dollar
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| and another day
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| When you can come here, when you can come here
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| Something’s got to change my way of being and this dirty old life that I been
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| seeing, lordy
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| I really wouldn’t live here
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| Nice place to visit! | 
| But you wouldn’t want to live here
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| Nice place to visit! | 
| But you wouldn’t want to live here
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| Now what’s a man supposed to do if there’s a love that isn’t true in his life?
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| That’s why he’ll take his foolish pride and move it over to the side,
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| for any real wife
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| Then in his mind he’ll search and find why he is blind, and what he is doing
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| here
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| That’s why I sing this foolish thing can only bring you down, after you’ve been
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| here
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| Something’s got to change my way of being and this rotten old life that I been
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| seeing, lordy
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| I really wouldn’t live here
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| Nice place to visit! | 
| But you wouldn’t want to live here
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| Nice place to visit! | 
| But you wouldn’t want to live here, no no
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| Such a nice place to visit! | 
| But you wouldn’t want to live here
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| Such a nice place to visit! | 
| But you wouldn’t want to live here, no no no |