| I’d never tell a man to ask my Daddy for my hand
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| I’ve got a thousand tales about the temper of that man
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| He’d shoot a man who came within a mile of my young frame
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| But I know that you will take the risk so I can take your name
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| You’ve got the ring; |
| I’ve got the keys and sixty miles a head
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| Iuka, Mississippi, where the two of us will wed
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| Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 'fore he knows the two of us have up and gone
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| Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi we can run away and never come home
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| Never come home
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| My daddy finally knocked a little sense right into me
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| So I asked around until I found the Justice of the Peace
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| The bruises on my body can’t be hidden anymore
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| So park your car upon the hill, I’m headed out the door
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| Step easy so my daddy doesn’t hear us sneak away
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| Hang around, he’ll shoot you down, that’s why we just can’t stay
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| Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 'fore he knows the two of us have up and gone
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| Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi we can run away and never come home
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| Follow close behind me, not much further now
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| Oh, it’s just a shadow, I didn’t hear a sound
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| Ain’t no way he heard us, ain’t no way he’ll come
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| I hear someone breathing, hold my hand and run
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| Somewhere in the river there’s a gun the devil owned
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| Somehow everybody knew that everything was wrong
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| A noose up in the maple tree; |
| the old man’s gonna pay
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| Two headstones for two lovers who finally got away
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| Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 'fore he knows the two of us have up and gone
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| Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi we can run away and never come home
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| Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 'fore he knows the two of us have up and gone
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| Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi we can run away and never come home
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| Never come home
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| Never come home
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| Never come home |