Eight More Miles to Louisville

by Grandpa Jones

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I’ve travel-ed ‘round this coun-try wide
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Seek-ing for-tune fair 
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Up and down two coasts lines 
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I’ve travel-ed eve-ry where
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From Port-land east to Port-land west 
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And back a-long the line 
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I’m go-in’ now to a place that’s best 
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That old home town of mine
   
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Eight more miles and Lou-is-ville 
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Will come in-to my view 
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Eight more miles on this old road 
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And I’ll nev-er more be blue 
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I knew some-day that I’d come back 
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I knew it from the start 
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Eight more miles to Lou-is-ville 
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The home town of my heart
   
There sure to be a girl some-where
That you like best of all 
Mine lives down in Lou-is-ville
She’s long and she is tall  
But she’s the kind that you can’t find
A ram-blin’ round this land
I’m on my way this ver-y day 
To win her heart and hand
  
Chorus
  
Now I can pic-ture in my mind 
A place we’ll call our home
A hum-ble lit-tle hut for two 
We’ll ne-ver want to roam
The place that’s right for that love site
Is in those blue-grass hills 
Where gent-ly flows the O-hi-o 
By a place called Lou-is-ville
   
Chorus
  
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