Eight More Miles to Louisville
Grandpa Jones, 2004· Songs Well-Known in America · p.94
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I've traveled o'er this country wide, seekin' fortune fair
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I've been down the two coast lines, I've traveled every where
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From Portland East and Portland West, and back along the line
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I'm goin' now to a place that's best, that old home town of mine.
Chorus:
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Eight more miles and Louisville will come in to my view
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Eight more miles on this old road, and I 'll never more be blue
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I knew some day that I'd come back; I knew it from the start
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Eight more miles to Louisville, the home town of my heart.
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There's sure to be a girl somewhere, that you like best of all
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Mine lives down in Louisville; She's long and she is tall
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But she's the kind that you can't find, a rambling through the land
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I'm on my way this very day to win her heart and hand. (Chorus)
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Now I can picture in my mind, a place we'll call our home
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A humble little hut for two; We'll never want to roam
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The place that's right for that love site is in those bluegrass hills
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Where gently flows the Ohio by a place called Louisville. (Chorus)
*Recorded by many artists, but now synonymous with Sam Bush