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Spoken:This is the first letter that |
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I wrote back home to |
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Momma and |
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Daddy a few days after |
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I'd moved to |
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Nashville: |
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June 2, 1964 |
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Nashville, |
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TennesseeDear |
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Momma and |
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Daddy,I hope this letter finds everybody well and happy. |
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As for me, |
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I'm fine I guess. |
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I'm just a little lonesome and a whole lot homesick. |
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I got to Nashville okay and |
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I thought |
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I'd better write and let you know cause |
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I knew you'd be worried about me and |
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I don't want you to be worried about me cause |
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I'm gonna be alright once |
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I get settled and used to being away from home. |
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I didn't realize how much |
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I loved you and all them noisy kids until |
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I left and |
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I didn't realize how hard it was to leave home either til |
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I started to leave and everybody started crying, including me. |
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I cried almost all the way to |
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Nashville and |
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I wanted to turn around a few times and come back but you know how bad |
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I've always wanted to go to |
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Nashville and be a singer and songwriter and |
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I believe that if |
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I try long enough and hard enough that someday |
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I'll make it. |
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Don't worry about trying to sending me any money or anything cause |
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I've got a job singing on the early morning television show here called the |
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Eddie Hill |
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Show.A couple of folks already told me that they might record a couple of my songs so |
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I'll be making enough money to get by and |
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I don't want you worrying about me being hungry or anything. |
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Nashville is not exactly what |
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I thought it was gonna be, but |
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I believe |
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I'm gonna like it here once |
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I get used to it. |
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And I don't want you worrying about me getting in trouble either cause |
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I'll be good just like |
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I promised you |
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I would when |
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I left.Well, can't think of anything else to say. |
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I guess I'd better close for now. |
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You write me real soon. |
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Tell everybody |
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I said hello and |
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I'm gonna be real anxious to hear from you cause |
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I sure miss you and |
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I love you an awful lot. |
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With love as always,- |
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Dolly |
