Misc Unsigned Bands – Friends Apickin - Current River (Ukulele)

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When I was a child, my family would travel

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Down to Southeast Missouri, where my parents where born

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There's a backards old town thats oftn remembered

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So many times at my memry's reward

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Daddy wont you take me back to old Shannon County

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Down by the Current River where paradise lays

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Sorry my son, but your too late in askin'

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The government has already took it away

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Sometimes we'll travel right down the Current River

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To the old Bailey Ferry down at PowderMill Bridge

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Where if you took the time to stop and to listen

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You could hear the dogs runnin' up high on the ridge

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The govenment came and they took all our houses

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They took all our homes and they took all our land

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Now their gone and the land is forsaken

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They wrote it all down as the progress of man

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When I die let my ashes float down the Current River

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Let my soul roll right up to Frank Roberts Land

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I'll be half way to heaven with paradise a'waitin'

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Five miles away from wherever I am