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All of my friends said "What's out in Cumberland?"
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"Gonna get lonesome when you get out to Cumberland"
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"Stay in the city, boy, winter is a wonderland"
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They all mean well, I will remember them
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Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now, country now
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Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now
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Wander through the holler, honey, wander through the glen
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Neighborly with fiddleheads, copperheads, and moccasins
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Build a little cabin, honey, throw a window in
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Watch the breeze blowin' through the hickories and dandellins’
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Oh boy get yourself back to the country now, country now
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Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now
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If you get there before I do
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Tell everybody I'm a 'coming too
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I know a pretty girl, she's the prettiest there's ever been
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Wild as a weed, sweeter than a mandolin
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I ain't a handsome man but I bet she'd take me as I am
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I haven't met her yet but I bet she lives in Cumberland
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Oh boy get yourself back to the country now, country now
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Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now
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So before you start talkin' 'bout the wonders of the world again
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The Taj Mahal, the Great Wall, the places that I never been
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Take a little drive, take a little trip to heaven and
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Wonder for a while if it's paradise or Cumberland
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Oh boy get yourself back to the country now, country now
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Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now
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Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now, country now
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Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now
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