Green River

Intro: 0:00
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Verse 1: 0:13
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Well, take me back down where
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Cool water flows, y'all.
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Oh, let me remember
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Things I love now.
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Stopping at the log where
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Catfish bite,
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Walkin along the river road at night,
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Barefoot girls dancing
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In the moonlight.

Verse 2: 0:42
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I can hear the bullfrog
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Callin me, how!
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Wond'ring if my ropes still
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Hanging to the tree, oh.
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Love to kick my feet way
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Down the shallow water.
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Shoo, fly, dragonfly, get back to your mother.
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Pick up a flat rock,
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Skip it across green river.

Instrumental: 1:08
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A, well.
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Verse 3: 1:33
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Up at Codys camp
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I spent my days, oh,
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With flat car riders
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And cross-tie walkers.
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Old Cody Junior
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Took me over,
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Said, "You're gonna find the world is smould'ring,
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And if you get, a, lost come on home
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To green river.

Coda: 2:00
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A, well.
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