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Artist: Ben Barnes
Canonical path: /ben-barnes/southbound
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Southbound
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Southbound
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I'm headed southbound
Long way to go down
Where the weather
Don't suit my clothes
Police can't catch me
Lord, how they tried
They always miss me when I am passing by
I'm passing by
I threw all my things
In a vacant lot
Down one last dollar boys
And that is all I got
Well I found all my friends
Just so I could say goodbye
I couldn't hold it down, girl
God, how I tried
Some got religion
And they just can't win
Well I take to hard drinking
And I push my feelings in
I'm leaving town
And all people that I know
Well I'm drunk as hell tonight
And that freight train, my home
I'm headed southbound
Long way to go down
Where the weather
Don't suit my clothes
Police can't catch me
Lord, how they tried
They always miss me when I'm passing by
I'm passing by
Rains pouring hard
Makes those steel rails shine
Nine hundred more miles
And I'll be doing just fine
And if the moon and the stars
Are the only shelter that I know
I guess I got this whole world
And you to call my home
You to call my home
You to call my home
You to call my home
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