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Thread #154474   Message #3624720
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
07-May-14 - 02:11 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Girl From Tennessee
Subject: Lyr Add: Girl From Tennessee
Lyr. Add: GIRL FROM TENNESSEE
As sung by Charlie Poole

There's a girl from Tennessee
Just as dark as she could be
And she never went to church or Sunday School
Says she went one day
When she heard that preacher say:

I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die
The life I aim on living's very high
Oh, sticks and stones gonna break-a my bones
Talk about me when I'm dead and gone
But I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die.

I'm gonna run me a cemetery of my own
If you don't let my gal there alone
Gonna buy me a razor, gonna scrape the blade
Gonna lay some son of a gun in the shade
For I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die.

Can anyone post the Tanner version?