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In a southern town where I was born
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That's where I got my education
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I worked in the fields and I walked in the woods
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And I wondered at creation
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I recall the sun in a sky of blue
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And the smell of green things growin'
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And I lived everyday and I lived anyway
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Anyway the wind was blowin'
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But then I heard of a cultured city life
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Breath-takin' lofty steeples
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And the day I called myself a man
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I left my land and my people
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And I rambled North and I rambled East
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And I tested and I tasted
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And a girl or two took me round and round
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But always left me wasted
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In a world that saw concrete and steel
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With nothin' green ever growin'
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Where the buildings hide the rising sun
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And stop the free wind from blowin'
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Where they sleep all day and they wake all night
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To a world of drink and laughter
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I met that girl that I thought would be
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The one that I was after
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In a soft blue gown and a formal tux
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Beneath that lofty steeple
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He said do you Barbra take this man
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Will you be one of his people
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And she said I will and she said I do
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And the world looked mighty pretty
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And we lived in a fancy downtown flat
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Cause she loved the noisy city
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Then the days grew cold beneath the yellow sky
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And I longed for green things growin'
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And I talked of home and my people there
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But she'd not agree to goin'
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Then her hazel eyes turned away from me
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With a look that wasn't very pretty
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And she turned into concrete and steel
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And she said I take the city
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Now the cars go by on the interstate
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And my pack is on my shoulder
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And I'm goin' home where I belong
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Much wiser now and older