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 If you ever get south of Cincinnati

Down where the dogwood trees grow

 If you ever get south of the Mason Dixon

 To the home you left so long ago

 If you ever get south of the Ohio River

Down where Dixieland begins

 If you ever get south of Cincinnati

I'll be yours again

 She pulled the letter from the pages of her Bible

 And a rose pressed inside the Book of Luke

 For fourteen years she'd write each day but keep it hidden

 Refused to even speak his name but still she wrote

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At a cold gray apartment in Chicago

A cigarette drowns inside a glass of gin

He lies there drunk, but it don't matter drunk or sober

He'll never read the words that pride won't let her send

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