Next To The Soil

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I want to be free   with the whippoorwills  callin'
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I want to go back  'fore my conscience spoils
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'Fore I lose my faith   in my next door neighbor
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Just let me go home   live next to the soil


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The city's no place   for an old cow-puncher
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Just spendin' his dough   and breakin' his back
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When the work gets through   no money no nothin'
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There never will be   livin' out of the sack


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The roosters crow   and a new day's dawnin'
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It's bacon and eggs   hot biscuits and all
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Who could ask for more   it's free for takin'
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God's gift to man   livin' next to the soil


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From the hills  I came   that's where I'll go to
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But while I'm here   give me strength to toil
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I want to go back   to Oklahoma
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I'm happy there   livin' next to the soil


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From the hills  I came   that's where I'll go to
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But while I'm here   give me strength to toil
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I want to go back   to Oklahoma
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I'm happy there   livin' next to the soil