Intro:
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In my dreams I hear the wildcat whine
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And I smell the rain on long-leaf pine
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You know I toss and moan
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Outside my window is a flashing sign
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It lights my room, ten steps by nine
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Sandy loam, sandy loam, I’m coming home
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Sandy loam, is where I’m bound
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That’s what I am, right down to the ground
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That bottom land soil, they call black gold
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Is calling me back home
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It was a silver city on a silver screen
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That took the mind of a child from his fields of green
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A long time ago
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But that stone and steel is hard and cold
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It's a chill I feel right down to my soul
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Sandy loam, sandy loam, I’m coming home
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Sandy loam, sandy loam, I’m coming home