| Come all of you people take warning from me
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| Don’t take no girl to Tennessee
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| For if you get married and don’t agree
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| It’ll aggravate your soul
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| We left Maces early in the night
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| Expect to get married before daylight
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| So many things happened to hinder our flight
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| It aggravated my soul
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| Arrived at The Bristol at 11 o’clock
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| The parson was there right on the spot
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| We found that the license had been forgot
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| It aggravated my soul
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| We went for the license in an automobile
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| Run so fast couldn’t see the wheel
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| No on can explain how bad I did feel
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| It aggravated my soul
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| We stayed all night at The Bristol Hotel
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| Just to make folks think we were swell
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| Next morning they put it in the Bristol Herald
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| It aggravated my soul
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| And when the new style books coming around
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| She begin’s to get ready to go to town
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| You know right then she’s milliner shop bound
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| It’ll aggravate your soul
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| She wants a new coat and a hobble skirt
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| And you can’t get in for the young gun’s and dirt
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| And when she gets out, oh how she will flirt
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| It’ll aggravate your soul
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| And when the person gather round your head
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| You’ll think of what your dear old mother said
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| With a pain in you back and heart and head
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| It’ll aggravate your soul
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| Now young men take warning from me
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| Don’t take no girl to Tennessee
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| For if you get married and don’t agree
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| It’ll aggravate your soul |