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Introduction:
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There's a place out on the edge of town sir
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Risin' above the factories and fields
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Now ever since I was a child I can remember
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That mansion on the hill
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In the day you can see the children playing
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On a road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
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Steel gates that completely surround sir
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That mansion on the hill
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At night my daddy'd take me and we'd ride
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Through the streets of a town so silent and still
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Park on a back road along the highway signs sir
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Look up at the mansion on the hill
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In the summer all the lights would shine
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There'd be music playin people laughin all the time
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Me and my brother we'd lie down in the tall cornfields sir
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Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill
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Tonight down here in Linden Town
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I watch the cars rushin' by home from the mill
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There's a beautiful full moon rising
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Above the mansion on the hill