• Song:

    Bus Fare To Kentucky

  • Artist:

    Skeeter Davis

  • Album:

    Skeeter Davis: RCA Coun...

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I know I'm just a country girl I hadn't seen much of the world
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Today my bus pulled out of old Kentucky
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My daddy waved and mama cried and I felt all choked up inside
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Cause I was leavin' everyone that loved me.


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The first I saw of city ways went against how I was raised
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This country girl was really out of place
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And I was set to go back home but I was broke and all alone
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And I couldn't find another friendly face.


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But I didn't have the bus fare to Kentucky
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Or this city would have seen the last of me
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I didn't have the bus fare to Kentucky
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And that old Grey Dog won't let me ride for free.


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I met a boy from Tennessee and I guess he reminded me
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Of someone that I knew in old Kentucky
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It was good to have a friend and it was good to laugh with him
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And it was good to hear him say he loved me.


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I never thought he'd do me wrong so I gladly went along
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I loved him more than any man I've known
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And after he had all his fun he told me that our love was done
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And then he left this country girl alone.


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But I didn't have the bus fare to Kentucky
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Or this city would have seen the last of me
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I didn't have the bus fare to Kentucky
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And that old Grey Dog won't let me ride for free.


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I can't afford to go first class so I'll make it the best I can
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Anything to get my feet on that good Kentucky land
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My thumb is in the air and my suitcase by my side
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Won't somebody give this poor old country girl a ride.


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Kentucky I'm a comin' home I'll never leave you anymore
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Kentucky I don't know why I ever strayed
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Kentucky your bluegrass bridges and your valleys call to me
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Kentucky I'm comin' home to stay
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Kentucky I'm a comin' home I'll never leave you anymore...
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