| Oh well, a one kind favor I’ll ask of you
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| Well, there’s one kind favor I will ask of you
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| Well, there’s one kind favor I will ask of you
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| Please see that my grave is kept clean
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| Oh well ah, two white horses in a line
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| There’s two horses in a line
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| Well, there’s two white horses ye-ah in a line
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| Gonna take me down to the burial ground
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| Did you ever hear a coffin sound?
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| Did you ever hear a coffin sound?
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| Did you ever hear, Lord, that coffin sound?
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| Then you know that the po' boy is in the ground
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| You can dig my grave with a silver spade
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| You can dig my grave with a silver spade
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| You can dig my grave with a silver spade
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| You may lead me down with a golden chain
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| (Aw, play it for Papa Bobby)
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| Did you ever hear the church bell toll?
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| Did you ever hear the church bell toll?
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| Did you ever hear, Lord, that church bell toll?
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| Then you know that the po' boy’s dead and gone
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| It’s a long, long lane ain’t got no end
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| It’s a long, long lane ain’t got no end
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| Yeah, it’s a long, long lane, Lord, ain’t got no end
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| It’s a bad way that don’t ever change
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| I said it don’t ever change
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| Ah, don’t ever change
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| I said it don’t ever change
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| I said it don’t ever change
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| I said it don’t ever change
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| I said it don’t ever change |