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Before the beginning you know something already started |
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Oh in the summer, smoking palace welcoming all the full hearted |
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The sun will settle down, with blind anticipation |
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Long that moon will shine it's light on a sordid celebration |
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Before Cotton Was King |
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Before sugar was queen |
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Rivers from the north lands stroll slowly to the sea |
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Givin' birth to the city lights like it was always meant to be |
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Ships sail in with foreign hands some who never leave |
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Every child a woven basket the night is new years eve |
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When Cotton Was King |
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When sugar was queen |
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Float on shady the future is not afraid |
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Hold on shady cat on the back of time's parade |
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Float on shady the future is not afraid |
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Hold on shady cat to the back of time's parade |
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Same souls have lived this place forever and a hundred years |
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Every dazzling race so close that color disappears |
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Tigers circlin' the tree they make butter on our bread |
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Some will say they'll have their day - some that did have never said |
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Cotton Was King |
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Oh, sugar was queen |
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Rice is the lady in waiting |
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Oh, Cotton Was King |
