(GUITARS INTRO)
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well, you walked that valley's grassy floor and climbed that hilly ridge
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you stood there naked stung with fear and tippy-toed on the edge
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well, you swung on a vine, you crawled in the dirt and made the river your best friend
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you ate ev'rything from a skunk to perch and filled me up with Zen
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well, you went to acapella and you sang Acapulco, danced on a coin
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you tied six Mexicans up in chains, then hitch-hiked to Des Moines
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you put the tube in the tub when you joined a club, and took the soles off your shoes
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but, baby, there's one thing you forgot to do
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you got to love me
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more than the trees and stars high above me
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you got to love me,
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love me,
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love me all the time,
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if you wanna be mine
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(whhheeeewww....)
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well, you turned my pockets inside out and my inside upside down
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took fourteen reds and shaved your head and let a semi run you down
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you filed your teeth and chromed your feet, shot a fifteen under par
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prayed thirteen days in eighteen ways then gurued in a bar
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well you slipped me a Mickey and you read James Dickey, drank up all my wine
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you did all that then drowned a bat and bought a Wurlitzer on time
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you ate barbecued stork with a spoon and a fork in a second-hand fun'ral plot,
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but baby, there's one thing that you forgot
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you got to love me
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more than the trees and stars high above me
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you got to love me,
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love me,
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love me all the time,
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if you want to be mine
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(MANDOLIN SOLO)
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[spoken during the mandolin solo and the last chorus:]
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I've been alone a long time now, and it seems like forever
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It's not that I wanna be
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it's just that all them things in there, together - bother me
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guess it's culture
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ahhhhhhhh
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if you'd only come back
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figure this thing out
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I guess it keeps going on here
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I'm runnin' outta breath, death...
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you got to love me
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more than the trees and stars high above me
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you got to love me,
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love me,
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love me all the time...
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Journey to the Center of Your Heart
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The Ozark Mountain Daredevils |