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I drove all day to North Mississippi |
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I drove all night to the place I call home |
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I hope that Johnny's still waitin' there for me |
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To take me beside him and call me his own |
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Chorus: |
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But it's too late now |
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It's too late now |
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The smell of magnolias |
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Still sweet in my mouth |
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And I know it's too late now |
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Johnny got mean when he started drinkin' |
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And it wasn't nobody's fault when he cried |
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So I left one mornin' from North Mississippi |
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Cause I couldn't stand to tell mama I lied |
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Chorus |
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Johnny took no time to ask me to marry |
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And I said I would though I knew it was wrong |
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They played Hank Williams in North Mississippi |
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And I played the same girl I had all along |
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Chorus |
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Early one mornin' in North Mississippi |
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I swore that I could hear somebody cry |
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But it wasn't my Johnny from North Mississippi |
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All dressed up in orange on the day that I died |
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Chorus: |
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But it's too late now |
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It's too late now |
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The smell of magnolias |
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Now gone from my mouth |
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And I know it's too late now |
