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I'd never tell a man to ask my Daddy for my hand. |
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I've got a thousand tales about the temper of that man. |
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He'd shoot a man who came within a mile of my young frame. |
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But I know that you will take the risk so I can take your name. |
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You've got the ring; I've got the keys and sixty miles a head. |
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Iuka, Mississippi, where the two of us will wed. |
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Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 'fore he knows the two of us have up and gone. |
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Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi we can run away and never come home. |
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Never come home. |
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My daddy finally knocked a little sense right into me. |
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So I asked around until I found the Justice of the Peace. |
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The bruises on my body can't be hidden anymore. |
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So park your car upon the hill, I'm headed out the door. |
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Step easy so my daddy doesn't hear us sneak away. |
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Hang around, he'll shoot you down, that's why we just can't stay. |
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Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 'fore he knows the two of us have up and gone. |
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Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi we can run away and never come home. |
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Follow close behind me, not much further now. |
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Oh, it's just a shadow, I didn't hear a sound. |
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Ain't no way he heard us, ain't no way he'll come. |
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I hear someone breathing, hold my hand and run. |
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Somewhere in the river there's a gun the devil owned. |
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Somehow everybody knew that everything was wrong. |
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A noose up in the maple tree; the old man's gonna pay. |
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Two headstones for two lovers who finally got away. |
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Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 'fore he knows the two of us have up and gone. |
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Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi we can run away and never come home. |
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Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 'fore he knows the two of us have up and gone. |
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Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi we can run away and never come home. |
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Never come home. |
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Never come home. |
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Never come home. |