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Lulu Mae
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The Mockingbird and the Dogwood Tree
This is the country, the land of my blood It is green in the summertime after the rivers go to flood And my woman she is reading on the front porch of my home I remember back when she was young and praying we'd never grow old
Tennessee my father though a prodigal I have been How I left you so long ago; my name into the wind And there on my return you put a ring upon my thumb It was longer than the Mississippi and woven like the iris's tongue
And oh! My God, I am so glad to be free We are drawn together like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree Like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
From Memphis up to Nashville down to Chattanooga too From Knoxville to Johnson City I'm going there with you And the songs that we will sing will rise like smoke between these hills Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Rising up like thunder and cascading through the valleys and the rills
And oh! My God, I am so glad to be free We are drawn together like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree Like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
And baby, just maybe, if you belong to me The ways that I frighten you will sink beneath the waves upon the sea And they'll stay down there til our hair goes gray No they won't have to scare you anymore
And oh! My God, I am so glad to be free We are drawn together like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree Like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
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