Ballad Of Barbara

	  		
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In a southern town where I was born 
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That's where I got my education 
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I worked in the fields and I walked in the woods 
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And I wondered at creation 

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I recall the sun in a sky of blue 
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And the smell of green things growin' 
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And I lived everyday and I lived anyway 
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Anyway the wind was blowin' 

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But then I heard of a cultured city life 
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Breath-takin' lofty steeples 
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And the day I called myself a man 
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I left my land and my people 

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And I rambled North and I rambled East 
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And I tested and I tasted 
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And a girl or two took me round and round 
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But always left me wasted 

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In a world that saw concrete and steel 
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With nothin' green ever growin' 
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Where the buildings hide the rising sun 
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And stop the free wind from blowin' 

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Where they sleep all day and they wake all night 
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To a world of drink and laughter 
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I met that girl that I thought would be 
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The one that I was after 

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In a soft blue gown and a formal tux 
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Beneath that lofty steeple 
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He said do you Barbra take this man 
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Will you be one of his people 

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And she said I will and she said I do 
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And the world looked mighty pretty 
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And we lived in a fancy downtown flat 
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Cause she loved the noisy city 

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Then the days grew cold beneath the yellow sky 
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And I longed for green things growin' 
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And I talked of home and my people there 
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But she'd not agree to goin' 

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Then her hazel eyes turned away from me 
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With a look that wasn't very pretty 
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And she turned into concrete and steel 
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And she said I take the city 

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Now the cars go by on the interstate 
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And my pack is on my shoulder 
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And I'm goin' home where I belong 
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Much wiser now and older