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[Verse 1]
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I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia
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I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her
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She never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter
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But I married her and took her down to New Orleans
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Got a little house in the South French Quarter (bass riff)

[Verse 2]
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Got a job hookin' bales, load em' on a steamboat
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I give her seven days pay, and the next day I'm broke
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When she ain't sleeping all day, she's a primpin'
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Every evening when the sun goes down
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She starts a swarmin' on 'Orlean town (bass riff)

[Verse 3]
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Walkin' into work this morning at daybreak
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I caught her with the tall lord dandy from New King Bay
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She walked right by and she looked right through me
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I made up my mind what I'm a gonna do
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Eased in a pawnshop and bought a twenty-two (bass riff)

[Verse 4]
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I watched as the room clerk gave them a room key
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Standing outside I could read room twenty-three
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Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia
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Gonna be a lotta kin folks squallin' and grievin'
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'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathin' (bass riff)
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