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Porteville

Porteville lyrics by The Golliwogs. It's been an awful long time Since I been home, But you won't catch me goin' Back down there alone. Things they said when...

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Porteville

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It's been an awful long time

Since I been home,

But you won't catch me goin'

Back down there alone.

Things they said when I was young

Are quite enough to get me hung.

I don't care! I don't care!

They came and took my Dad away

To serve some time,

But it was me that paid the debt

He left behind.

Folks said I was full of sin,

Because I was the next of kin.

I don't care! I don't care!

Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!

I don't care! I don't care!

Folks were out one night

To put me up a fence,

And you can guess that I've been

Runnin' ever since.

Ain't no one that's 'bout to help,

And I'll keep on, I tell myself.

I don't care! I don't care!

I don't care! I don't care!

I don't care! I don't care!

Ain't no one that's 'bout to help,

And I'll keep on, I tell myself.

I don't care! I don't care!

I don't care! I don't care!

I don't care! I don't care!

I don't care! I don't care!

I don't care! I don't care!

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