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Artist: Tom Waits
Canonical path: /tom-waits/johnsburg-illinois
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Johnsburg, Illinois
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Johnsburg, Illinois
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She's my only true love
She's all that I think of
Look here in wallet, that's her
She grew up on a farm there
There's a place on my arm
Where I've written her name
Next to mine
You see
I just can't live without her
And I'm her only boy
And she grew up
Outside McHenry
In Johnsburg, Illinois
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