Key: E
Introduction:
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The Highway sun said the Georgia Line
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was twenty miles away.
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I thought I'd take a detour, and see the old home place.
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I could have found my way back with my eyes closed,
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and in the dark.
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This old dirt road 'aint on the map, I know the way by heart.
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And the house still looks the same,
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though the name on that old mailbox has been changed.
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And the tractor turns the Earth,
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That my daddy and a mule had plowed up first.
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As the memories return, and my eyes begin to burn.
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This old place, has new faces in the field.
The rocking chair is on the front porch