EIGHT MORE MILES TO LOUISVILLE

I've traveled o'er this country wide seeking fortune fair
Up and down the two coastlines, I've traveled everywhere
From Portland east to Portland west and back across the line
I'm going now to Louisville, that old hometown of mine.

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Eight more miles and Louisville will just be comin' into my view
Eight more miles on this old road and I'll never more be blue
I knew some day that I'd be back, knew it from the start
Eight more miles to Louisville, the hometown of my heart.

I got a gal in Louisville that I love best of all.
I got a gal in Louisville, she's long and she's tall.
She's not the kind of gal you'd find travelin' through the land.
I'm headed now to Louisville to win her heart and hand.

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Now I can picture in my mind a place we'll call our home
A humble little hut for two, and I nevermore will roam
The place that's right for that love site is in those bluegrass hills
Where gently flows the Ohio by a place called Louisville.