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(1st Verse)  Well I made my plans to leave you far behind 
 
 
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To put you in my past, and get you off my mind.  
 
 
So I took your mem'ry, on a midnight ride. 
 
 
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Down a dark an lonely back road, and left it there to die. 
 
 
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(Chorus)  But look what followed me home, I thought I was alone. 
 
 
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But your memory, it's comin' back to me 
 
 
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I thought I'd left it behind, and got you off my mind. 
 
 
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But I see I was wrong, wrong, wrong, look what followed me home. 
 
 
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(2nd Verse)  Well, I walked down to the river, at the break of dawn, 
 
 
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With a picture of you darlin', up underneath my arm. 
 
 
I said the heartache's over, today is your last day, 
 
 
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And I thanked that muddy river, as it carried you away. 
 
 
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  Yeah!  I see I was wrong, wrong, wrong.  Look what followed me home.