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I met a preacher down by the cane breaks
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Sat there the devil right there at his side
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Bolt of lightning struck that cane break
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You should have seen the preacher jumpin' on back
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Double dealers there hidin' in the bushes
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Take the bait, boys, you're gonna get hurt
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Before you drive it, I need my rental ???
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Don't you want to take another look
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Down at the cane breaks Down at the cane breaks
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They're selling that snake oil jumping on a claimed stakes
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Down by the cane break lines are being drawn
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And the choc- and the chicken saw they're all gone
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This ain't your name these ain't your people
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What're you doing walking these woods
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Cane and sickness blood and whiskey
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Calling it progress and calling it good
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Men of the cloth men of the ivories
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Jimmy Lee Swaggart has got Jerry Lee shook
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Down in Mississippi they're seeing double
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God is the devil until you take another look
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Down at the cane break Down at the cane break
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The horse hooves pounding like a headache
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Down at the cane break you can't buy a thrill
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'cause you spent it all at matches under the hill
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Ghosts are sleeping down at the cane break
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and their hearts have turned to stone
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And alligators, they're crying like babies
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Past the bayou the ???
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Before you cut through the heart of a nation
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take your history books to town
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Before the God and the glory go to their stations
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Don't you wanna take another look around
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Down at the cane breaks Down at the cane breaks
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Men are shaking hands it's feeling like an earthquake
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Down at the cane breaks cheaters getting torn
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and those red white and blue babies are being born
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Cane Breaks
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John Hiatt |