[C. Berry cover]
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Dig it I left my home in Norfolk Virginia
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California on my mind
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Straddled that Greyhound
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Rode him in the Raleigh on across Caroline
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We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle
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Half way across Alabam
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And that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded
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In downtown Birmingham
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Raleigh bought me a through train ticket
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Ridin' cross Mississippi clean
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I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
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Smokin' into New Orleans
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Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
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Just help me get to Houston town
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There are people there who care a little 'bout me
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And they won't let the poor boy down whoo
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Sure as you're born they bought me a silk suit
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virginia
train
ticket
hands
straddled
mississippi
engines
downtown
stranded
chariot
cross
raleigh
berry
terminal
across
golden
flyer
broke
bought
houston
through
little
people
folks
clean
angeles
carte
albuquerque
thirteen
california
cover
caroline
louisiana
turned
birmingham
luggage
midnight
minutes
telephone
would
motor
norfolk
trouble
orleans
greyhound
promised
somebody
pilot
swing
state
steak
wings
struggle
there
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