My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy

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From a shack by a mountain stream
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To a room in New Orleans
So far from my blue ridge mountain 
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home
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The men I meet ain't warm and 
friendly
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Like the one in old Virginy
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Oh they ain't real like my blue 
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ridge mountain boy


I was just a little past eighteen
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When I came to New Orleans
I'd never been beyond my home state 
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line
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There was a boy who loved me dearly
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But I broke his heart severely
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When I left my blue ridge mountain 
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boy

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Life was dull in my hometown
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Lights were out when the sun went 
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down
And I thought the city life was more
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 my style

But nights get lonely way from home
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And it's easy to go wrong
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The men ain't kind like my blue 
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ridge mountain boy


New Orleans held things in store
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Things I've never bargained for
Every night a different man knocks 
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on my door
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But late at night when all is still
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I can hear a whippoorwill
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As I cry for my blue ridge 
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mountain boy

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Oh but I can't ever go back home
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Since the boy I loved is gone
He grew tired of waiting for me to 
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return

They say he'd married last October
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But I never will get over
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Oh the sweet love of my blue ridge 
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mountain boy

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Blue ridge mountain boy