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I've traveled o'er this country wide 
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A-seekin' fortune fair
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I've been down the two coast lines
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I've traveled every where
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From Portland East and Portland West 
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And back along the line
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I'm goin' 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 Louisville 
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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 never 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 Louis-ville
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The home town of my heart.
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There's sure to be a girl somewhere
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That you like best of all
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Mine lives down in Louisville
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She's long and she is tall
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But she's the kind thaT you can't find
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A ramblin' through the land
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I'm on my way this very day
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To win her heart and hand.

***CHORUS***
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Now I can picture in my mind
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A place we'll call our home
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A humble little hut for two
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We'll never want to roam
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The place that's right for that love site
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Is in those bluegrass hills 
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Where gently flows the Ohi-o
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By a place called Louis-ville.