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The air raid siren at the high school blew |
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Every weekday, twelve o'clock noon |
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Dinner time, people as if we didn't know |
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I guess the city fathers liked to hear that thing blow |
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The boys were chasing the city truck, spraying DDT |
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It kept the mosquitoes down |
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And that stuff won't hurt you none the neighbor lady'd say |
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Encephalitis, now that can ruin your day |
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Granny was hanging out wash, talking across the fence |
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The neighbor lady nodded like it all made sense |
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She's just gonna stay with him 'til the kids are grown |
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Fetch me that clothes pin up off the ground would you hon' |
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Won't you stay with me 'til the sun goes down? |
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On that flat top mountain to the West of town |
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Won't you stay a while, I just don't see |
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Why you must be leaving? Won't you stay with me? |
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I had a cherry coke dripping on my cowboy clothes |
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Riding down Scott street in that big white Olds |
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We're going through nigger town, honey lock your doors |
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'Course that's not what we're supposed to call 'em anymore |
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We're going to the beauty shop, it's not too far |
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You can come inside or you can just set in the car |
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No you can't go with grandpa to the pasture today |
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They're shipping calves and you'd just get in the way |
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Won't you stay with me 'til the sun goes down? |
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On that flat top mountain to the West of town |
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Won't you stay a while, I just don't see |
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Why you must be leaving? Won't you stay with me? |
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We had fried okra and black eyed peas |
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Granny had her saccharin, she was putting it in her tea |
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Pull that screen door to hon' you're letting in flies |
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Don't you know nothing |
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Yonder comes the pickup, he's coming down the street |
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Run help him put the horses up so we can eat |
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He's always late for dinner, Lord, he moves so slow |
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12 o'clock whistle blew half an hour ago |
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Won't you stay with me 'til the sun goes down? |
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On that flat top mountain to the West of town |
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Won't you stay a while, I just don't see |
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Why you must be leaving? Won't you stay with me? |