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They were farm kids way down in Dixie 
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They met in high school in the sixties 
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Everyone knew it was love from the start 
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One July in the midnight hour 
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He climbed upon the water tower 
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Stood on the rail and painted a ten foot heart 
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In John Deere Green 
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On a hot summer night 
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He wrote Billy Bob loves Charlene 
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In letters three foot high 
 
 
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And the whole town said 
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that he should had used red 
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But it looked good to Charlene 
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in John Deere Green 
 
 
They settled down on eighty acres 
Raising sweet corn, kids and tomatoes 
They went together like a hand and a glove 
On a clear day from their front yard 
He you look and know what to look for 
Off to the east you can still read his words of love 
 
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