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Stranded in Nashville. I’m a Boy from Old Perlican.
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I went Buskin’ down Broadway I made 4 bucks American.
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An’ I’m homesick and wishin’ I was still back home fishin’
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But all those times are gone.
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How strange to be in Tennessee singin’ Newfoundland Songs
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I crossed over the border ‘neath the light from the stars.
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‘ had the luck of da Irish I had my daddy’s guitar.
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It’s Gibson J 45, it’s gonna keep me alive.
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And comfort me midnight ‘til dawn.
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Aw how strange to be here in Tennessee
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Singin’ Newfoundland Songs
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I know it isn’t Hank Williams, though I can sing him as well.
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I Sing Jimmy Roger’s Blue Yodel, I sing Lefty………. Frizzell.
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And I’m a stranger here in Tennessee I’m a boy from around the bay
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Ah yeah, but I know how to sing boys and I know how to play.
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‘Cause my daddy taught me, taught me these words, taught me these chords.
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And he taught me before he passed on.
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Ah how strange to be in Tennessee singin’ hard hard times
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Singin’ kid on the pond.
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Singin’ Newfoundland songs.
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If there’s one small consolation here in these desperate times.
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All those Nashville songwriters are tryin’ to look like Ron Hynes.
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How strange to be in Tennessee singin’ Newfoundland Songs.