Arkansas

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She said 85 years have fairly flown
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They called me last night said my 
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brother passed on
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I cried for a while and stared at
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 the wall
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‘Cause there’s no one I know left 
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in Arkansas

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I can still see the five of us climb
 out the window
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To lay on the porch roof that night,
 in the summer time
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Mama would line us all up on a 
Saturday
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To each have our turn in the tub
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She said that was Arkansas

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When she was young we had kerosene 
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nights and innocent days
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Never dreamed we all would go 
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separate ways
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But with each passing or a baby 
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came a long distance call
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And we’d all make the trip back 
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to Arkansas

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I could still see my brothers in the
 faces of old man
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We talked about horses and things we
 were missing
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Like the smell of a hay field the 
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slow rolling thunder
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And thinking that nothing would 
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change
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Yeah just like Arkansas

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In her younger days she said time 
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is a river that rolls on forever
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You can’t stop at the shore line to
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 admire the view
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So you pack up your memories, 
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pressed them like flowers
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‘Till all that is left here is you
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And Arkansas

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She still can hear the song of a 
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Whip-poor-will, calling her,
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The wind as he whispers her name in 
the evening
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And mama still beautiful and 
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graceful, a sunshine
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And daddy is handsome and strong
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Yeah just like Arkansas, yeah her 
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Arkansas
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Yeah that was Arkansas