Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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A young man stood beside the road in a
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battered hat and dirty clothes just outside a small
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I pulled off to pick him up and as he climbed into my
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truck he said hey thanks I see you're headed south
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I asked where he was going to and what he had of
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mine to do and he got to wherever he was bound
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looked down the road and said,
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Well, sir, I'm headed home to the girl I
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left behind in my hometown.
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southern part of heaven
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waiting there for me
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When I finally get back home
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and we are all alone
southern part of
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America can be
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He promised her when he left home
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that he'd be back in a year or so
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And they could be together from then on
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Said he needed just a little time to see what fortune he
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could find outside the little world that they had known
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But a lot can happen in a year and I wondered if she'd
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still be there waiting for the day when he got home
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So I asked him this when I let him out,
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he smiled and said he had no doubt
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And as I drove away,
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southern part of heaven
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waiting there for me
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When I fi nally get back home
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and we are all alone
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part of heaven can be
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Eight last night, I heard the news about a lone
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beside his sweetheart's grave.
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He'd left a note explaining why it was time for him to die,
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that it gave.
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southern part of heaven
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be waiting there for me
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home and hear all along
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We'll see how beautiful the southern
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part of heaven can be
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southern part of heaven
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waiting there for me
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home and we are all alone
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part of heaven can be
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part of heaven can be.
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part of heaven can be.
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