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I grew up along way from here |
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I slept with the lights on for fifteen years |
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And sabbath kept me home on friday nights |
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And daddy sang me rodgers |
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Just to make everything alright |
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My town wasn't even on the map |
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You could pass right through it in twenty seconds flat |
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But the south was like the whole world to me |
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It wasn't easy to stay but it was harder to leave |
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Yeah i was a south bound child |
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Yeah i had a small town life |
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But i turned out alright in the north |
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Livin' that southern kind of life |
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Old friends and bibles filled the house |
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No room for money and no money anyhow |
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Deprived was something we always heard |
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But to me and my brother it was just another word |
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I use to think the north was the end |
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Cause people go there and they don't come back again |
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But my father's father was a man of the sea |
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He lived a southern life two blocks away from me |
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Yeah i was a south bound child |
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Yeah i had a small town life |
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But i turned out alright in the north |
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Livin' that southern kind of life |
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Yeah i was a south bound child |
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Yeah i had a small town life |
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But i turned out alright in the north |
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Livin' that southern kind of life |