| Stranger I know where you’ll find her
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| Down the road from here about a mile and a quarter.
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| You’ll know the place by a shackey barn
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| That stands in the field by a run-down farm
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| By a pond, filled up with stagnant water.
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| Then you’ll see a shack nearby, you’ll ask yourself
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| I wonder why it looks so cold, and lifeless all around.
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| Chimney rocks are fallin' out, it looks as though
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| The fire’s gone out and the biggest part
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| Of the house is rotted down.
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| Though Stranger, I ain’t seen her lately.
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| She don’t come around here like she used to.
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| You’ve got her pictured in your mind,
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| Pretty, gentle, sweet and kind,
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| You’ve practiced every word you’re gonna say.
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| You’ll call her name, but she won’t hear you,
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| She’s in the graveyard near you.
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| She died ten years ago, last May.
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| There was a man she talked about,
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| A man she had to live without.
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| Years ago, he just turned and left one day.
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| He left her with an unborn child,
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| And a love for him that never died,
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| And an aching heart,
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| That sent her to an early grave.
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| Yes, Stranger I know who you are,
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| I recognized you from afar,
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| But you ain’t never seen me,
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| Not one time.
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| Yes, I know that you’re my dad,
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| From pictures that my Momma had.
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| And it was me and Momma that you left behind.
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| Stranger, you will find her there,
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| In a peaceful sleep on yonder hill.
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| Where we once walked, as I do still…
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| To pick her flowers from the field.
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| Momma don’t need you anymore,
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| And I don’t need you like before,
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| You can go on back to where you went before…
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| You’re just a stranger. |