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Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Canonical path: /gentry-bobbie/but-i-can-t-get-back
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But I Can't Get Back
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But I Can't Get Back
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Won't you look down on me Lord
You know you've always been my friend
I wonder can you see it clear
To show the way
'Cause sometime I get to feelin'
Like I want to be headin' home
And hide my troubled mind and soul
In yesterday
Sometimes I get to prayin'
For a country thunderstorm
To fall down all around
And ease my heavy load
Oh sweet cleansing rain
Won't you wash my spirit clean
And soothe that traveled
Dusty gravel road
That leads me home
That leads me home
That leads me home
Sometimes I get to hurtin'
For an old familiar face
A friend I've lost somewhere
Along the lonely way
And sometimes I get to feelin'
Like I want to be headin' home
Sometimes I get to feelin'
Like I feel today
And I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home
But I can't get back
Won't you look down on me Lord
You know you've always been my friend
I wonder can you see it clear
To show the way
'Cause sometimes I get to feelin'
Like I want to be headin' home
Sometimes I get to feelin'
Like today
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