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Down along the railroad track
I ran into my old friend Jack
He was dressed in his Sunday best
But his face was mad and his eyes was a daze
He said `I lost Marinaand the last place that I'd seen hershe was making offwith my best friend'I took him to the water
I spent fifty dollars
On something that would take him to the moon
Well he must have gone to heavencuz just before I left him
I tried to wake him up
But he would not move
So come on Carmelita
You drunk too muchand I can see thatsoon you're gonna need a breath of air
We'll dance across the wheatfields
There's a place I know just east of here
It wouldn't take too long to (____?)
We'll sleep out on the groundand in the morning when we wake upwe'll leave town
And I picked my last tobacco leaf
Soaking wet up to my kneesout there before the sun has (arise?)
You can have a drink of waterbut don't you look at my daughteror I'll come down there and cut you with this knife
So come on Carmelita
You drunk too muchand I can see thatsoon you're gonna need a breath of air
We'll dance across the wheatfields
There's a place I know just east of here
It wouldn't take too long to (____?)
We'll sleep out on the groundand in the morning when we wake upwe'll leave town
There ain't any flat manbut if you are a black manthey'll put you on a planeback from where you're from
We'll sleep out on the groundand in the morning when we wake up
We'll leave town
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