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I grew up in a town with one red light |
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How that train would rattle me in the middle of the night |
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But I slept like a baby in that bed |
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Cause mama kept me warm and she kept me fed |
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July 3rd was a dreaded friend of mine |
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We'd all go down to the family plot in the Louisiana pines |
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Staring at that little baby's grave |
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Stella was as young as she was brave |
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And what I'd give to go there again |
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Kiss my daddy's face, hold my mama's hand |
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Little did I know soon they would be |
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Lying right beside her, gone away from me |
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Gone away from me |
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They always made us kneel by grandpa's grave |
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Mama was a-wailing asking God if he was saved |
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I never liked to see my daddy cry |
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I guess I'll never know how grandpa died |
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And what I'd give to go there again |
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Kiss my daddy's face, hold my mama's hand |
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Little did I know soon they would be |
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Lying right beside him, gone away from me |
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Gone away from me (Gone away from me) |
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Gone away from me, from me (Gone away from me) |
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Gone away from me (Gone away from me) |
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You barely even see the tombstones now |
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The trees are grown up everywhere and no one keeps the grounds |
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Strangers live inside my childhood home |
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And I can't believe that daddy's really gone |
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And what I'd give to go there again |
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Kiss his withered face, hold her gentle hand |
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But there ain't no way that will ever be |
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They lie beneath that old tree, |
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Gone away from me (Gone away from me) |
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Gone away from me |
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Gone away from me (Gone away from me) |
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Well I grew up in a town with one red light |
