| Trouble in mind, and I’m blue
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| Oh you know I won’t be blue always
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| You know the sun is gonna shine in my back door some day
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| I’m going down to the river
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| Oh you know I’m gonna sit right down right down there, on the ground
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| You know if I get to thinkin' about my baby, I wanna jump overboard and drown
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| Well I’m going back to Jackson
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| Oh you know to my old Jackson, Tennessee
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| Where you know your girls ain’t doin' nothin' but makin' a fool of me
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| Well I’m going down to the railroad
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| Oh you know I’m gonna lay my head right down on the railroad iron
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| I’m gonna let the two-nineteen ease my worried mind |