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Woke up this morning to the humming of the engines
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Hauling nature's finest from the Gulf of Mexico
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Ridin' this ol' river is peaceful but it's lonesome
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It makes wonder how the old folks are at home


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Now the years have blown by me like the wind through the pines
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But the song of the south is ever sweet as homemade wine
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Oh how I miss those mountains when the Laurels are in bloom
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N' the southern stars are dancin' 'round North Carolina moon

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Just road through Memphis I could hear them guitar's playing
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They had the blues so bad it almost broke my heart
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Don't sound nothing like a band of tree frogs singing
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Every now and then they'd get in tune with grandpa's harp

[Chorus]

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When I die boys make me this promise
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You'll send my body back up North Carolina way
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I don't want no tombstone just lay me next to mama
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And let the honeysuckle grow wild upon my grave