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Go on ahead and go home |
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Go on ahead and go home |
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Boy, you've done your best |
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Time you took your rest in the sheltering loam |
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Go on ahead and go home |
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Go on ahead and go home |
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The spirits of the dead will meet you up ahead |
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You won't be alone |
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Go let your mama see you smile |
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Go let your mama see you smile |
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Mama's gonna wait however long it takes,but it's sure been awhile |
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Go let your mama see you smile |
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Go let your mama see you smile |
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She's standing in the sun sayin'"Boy, your works been done a long, long mile" |
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Down where the cotton grows tall |
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Down where the cotton grows tall |
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Where the bramble rose and blue hydrangea growsbeside the old mare's stall |
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Down where the cotton grows tall |
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Down where the cotton grows tall |
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And a fragrant delta breeze shakes the cypress treesdown deep in the |
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FallIn the deep of the night, |
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In the deep of the night |
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By the river so still where sorrows come to healand wrongs are made right |
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Down in the deep of the night, |
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In the deep of the night |
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On a creaking porch swing, the ancient ones sing"everything is alright" |