Key: D
Introduction:
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My little brother was just ten years old
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when we hit bad weather and hid in the hole
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we could see texas was only a mile
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and o little brother i remember your smile
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at indianola.....
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my dad built a sawmill of cyprees and stone
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it was here on madena that we made our home
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the year 1850 and i sent for my girl
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o frauline come meet me in this brand new world
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at indianola......
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the war they call civil had barely begun
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me and my cousins decided we'd run
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up through louisianna to meet up with grant
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but one hundred damn rebels shot us there in the sand
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at indianola.....
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they said up in new york the stock market fell
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and the life they was livin was shot all to hell
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but we aint seen nothin no different than dust
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sept the wheels on the wagon all covered with rust
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at indianola.....
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and that scrape with old hitler was over and done
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and i wondered if i could kill kin with my gun
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but we sat there in paris in a little cafe
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and as they toasted truman i drifted away
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to indianola........
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but its fifty years later and nobody cares
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about some old city that aint even there
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well my sons moved to houston and they work in the gulf
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with seven days on and seven days off
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well i work for the doctor that bought our old ranch
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from first quality federal the forclousure branch
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and he calls me hillbilly and he laughs at my hair
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but the cancer will get him if anythings fair
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and i'll take his ashes and throw from my boat
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as they crossed that ocean i'm going to float
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to find me another indianola......
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indianola........
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indianola........