Mother Country

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[Verse 1]
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  There was a story in the San 
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Francisco Chronicle that of course 
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I forgot to save
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but it was about a lady  who lived 
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in the 'good old days'.   When a 
century was born
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  and a century had died   and 
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about these 'good old days',   the 
old lady replied.
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  "Why they were just a lot of 
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people doing the best they could". 
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"Just a lot of people doing
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the best they could" and then the 
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lady said that they did it, 
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"pretty up and walking good".
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What ever happened to those faces 
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in the old photographs?   I mean, 
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the little boys. Boys?
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Hell, they were men who stood knee 
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deep in the Johnstown mud in the 
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time of that terrible flood and they
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listened to the water,   that 
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awful noise   and then they put 
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away the dreams that belonged to 
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little boys.

[Chorus]
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    And the sun is going down 
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for Mister Bouie
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as he's singing with his class of
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 nineteen-two.
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Oh, mother country, I do love you.
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Oh, mother country, I do love you.

[Verse 2]
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I knew a man named E.A. Stuart,   
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spelled S.T.U.A.R.T and he owned 
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some of the finest horses
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that I think I've ever seen. And he
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 had one favorite, a champion,   the
 old Campaigner
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  and he called her "Sweetheart 
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On Parade".   And she was easily 
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the finest horse
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that the good Lord ever made but 
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old E.A. Stuart, he was going 
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blind and he said
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"Before I go, I gotta drive her one 
more time".
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  So people came from miles around 
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  and they stood around the ring 
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  but no one said a word,
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you know, no one said a thing   
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and here they come, E.A. Stuart in
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 the wagon right behind
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  sitting straight and proud   
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and he's driving her stone blind   
and would you look at her.
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  Oh, she never looked finer   or
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 went better than today,   it's 
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E.A. Stuart   and the old 
Campaigner,
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  "Sweetheart On Parade". And the 
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people cheered.   Why I even saw 
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a grown man break right down and cry
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  and you know it was just a 
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little while later   that old E.A. 
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Stuart died.

[End-Chorus]
E  E         E               Am 
     And the sun it is going 
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down for Mister Bouie
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as he's singing with his class of
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 nineteen-two.
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Oh, mother country, I do love you.
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Oh, mother country, I do love 
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you.