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Jacob was a dirt poor farm boy
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raised at the fork in the road, in a clapboard house
and Rachel was a land baron's daughter
born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
Her daddy said he wouldn't stand
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for Rachel to waste her life with a common man
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He tried hard to keep them apart
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but you can't draw lines, in a young girl's heart
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So late one night by the harvest moon
Jacob climbed a ladder up to Rachel's room
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He knew his place, it was right beside her
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step by step, up to her world
head over heels for his brown eyed girl
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and gettin' caught didn't seem to matter
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'cause heaven was waitin' at the top of Jacob's ladder.
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It'll be five years september
since her daddy found a ladder
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and a note on her window sill
He swore he'd never forgive them
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but nothin' melts a heart like a grandchild will
Now she climbs up on his knee
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says "Grampa tell the story; the one about me"
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He thinks back and his eyes shine
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says listen child, once upon a time...
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Late one night by the harvest moon
your daddy climbed a ladder to your momma's room
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He knew his place, it was right beside her
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Step by step, up to her world
head over heals for my little girl
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and here you are, that's all that matters
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'cause heaven was waitin' at the top of Jacob's ladder
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Oh, and an angel was waitin' at the top of Jacob's Ladder