Intro 
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[Verso 1]

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Stranger I know where you’ll find her 
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Down the road from here about a mile and a quarter 
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You’ll know the place by shackey barn 
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It stands in the field by a rundown farm 
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And a pond filled up with stagnant water 


[Verso 2]

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Then you’ll see a shack near by 
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You’ll ask yourself I wonder why 
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It looks so cold and lifeless all around 
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Chimney rocks are falling out 
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It looks as though the fires gone out 
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And the biggest part of the house is rotted down 


[Verso 3]
 
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Though stranger,I ain’t seen her lately 
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She don’t come around here like she used to 
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You’ve got her pictured in your mind 
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Pretty gentle sweet and kind 
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You’ve practiced every word you’re gonna say 


[Verso 4]
 
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You’ll call her name, but she won’t here you 
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She’s in the graveyard near here 
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  She died ten years ago, last May 
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There was a man she talked about 
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A man she had to live without 
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Years ago, he up and left one day 
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He left her with an unborn child 
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And a love for him that never died 
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And an aching heart that sent her to an early grave 


[Verso 5]

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Yes stranger I know who you are 
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I recognized you from a far 
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But you ain’t never seen me not one time 
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Yeh I know that you’re my dad 
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From the pictures that my mama had 
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And it was me and mama that you left behind 


[Verso 6]

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Well, stranger you will find her there 
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In peaceful sleep on yonder hill 
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Where we once walked as I do still 
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  To pick her flowers from the field 


[Verso 7]
 
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Cause mama don’t need you anymore 
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And I don’t need you like before 
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You can go on back to where you went before 
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You’re just a stranger