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Willie & laura mae jones |
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Were our neighbours a long time back |
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They lived right down the road from us |
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In a shack just like our shack |
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The people worked the land together |
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And we learned to count on each other |
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When you live off the land |
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You don't have the time to think about another man's colour |
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The cotton was high and the corn was growing fine |
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But that was another place and another time |
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Sit out on the front porch |
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In the evening when the sun went down |
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Willie would play and the kids would sing |
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And everybody would mess around |
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Daddy'd bring out his guitar |
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And play on through the night |
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Every now and then ol willie would grin and say |
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Hey, you play all right |
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Made me feel so good |
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I remember the best times of all |
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When saturday came around |
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We all would stop by willie's house and say |
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Do yall need anything from town? |
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He'd say no, but why don't y'all stop on the way back through? |
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And I'll get laura mae, yeah, to cook up some barbecue |
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And you know that's good |
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The cotton was high and the corn was growing fine, yes it was |
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But that was another place and another time |
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Oh, the years rolled past the land |
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And took back what they'd given |
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We all knew we had to move |
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If we were gonna make a living |
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So we all moved off |
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And went about our separate ways |
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It sure was hard to say goodbye |
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To willie and laura mae (jones), oh yeah |
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The cotton was high and the corn was growing fine, yes it was |
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But that was another place and another time |
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I remember so well |
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The cotton looked so fine |
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But that was another place and another time |
