Well I left home at a crack of dawn just about a year ago
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I thumbed my way cross the USA and I learned a lot I didn't know
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The Primised Land that I thought I'd find was always just ahead of me
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Until one day when I realized I left it back in Tennessee
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And that's why I'm going back to my Tennessee girl and a Tennessee way of life
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And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee girl to be my Tennessee wife
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Tonight I slept in a hobo camp workin' out like dog by day
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I never got enough to get ahead just enough to make my way
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Cold and tired when the evening come all I had to ease my mind
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Was thinkin' bout the place I started from and the girl that I left behind
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And that's why I'm going back...
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There ain't no place that I been at all that I would gonna settle in
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And every town that I travel through made me wanna go home again
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The green green grass and the rollin' hills seem to keep a callin' me
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Back to the place where I was born and the girl that I long to see
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And that's why I'm going back...
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I'm going back...
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Tennessee Girl
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| Charley Pride |
