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Farewell, my Lila
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I'll write every evening
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I've carved our names
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In the trunk of this tree
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Farewell, my Lila
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I miss you already
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And dream of the day
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When I'll hold you again
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In a home safe from fear
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When the Southland is free
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I go to fight for these old hills behind me
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These Old Red Hills of Home
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I go to fight, for these old hills remind me
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Of a way of life that's pure
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Of the truth that must endure
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In a town called Marietta
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In the Old Red Hills of Home
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Pray on this day as I journey beyond them
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These Old Red Hills of Home
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Let all the blood of the North spill upon them
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'Till they've paid for what they've wrought
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Taken back the lies they've taught
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And there's peace in Marietta
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And we're safe again in Georgia
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In the land where Honor lives and breathes
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The Old Red Hills of Home
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Farewell, my Lila
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Farewell
[OLD GD IER]
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Look there, my Lila
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They call me to tell it
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The lives that we led
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When the Southland was free
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We gave our lives for the old hills of Georgia
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The old red hills of home
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Not much survives of the old hills of Georgia
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But I close my eyes and hear
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All the treasures we held dear
[OLD GD IER]
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The rushing of the Chattahoochie
[TOWNSPEOPLE]
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The tall pines and the red clay
[OLD GD IER]
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The rustling in the wind
[TOWNSPEOPLE]
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The blue skies and the dogwood trees
[OLD GD IER]
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And Mama in the kitchen singin'
[TOWNSPEOPLE]
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A man can grow his cotton
[OLD GD IER]
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And me and Lila swinging in a tree
[TOWNSPEOPLE]
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And his crops
[OLD GD IER & TOWNSPEOPLE]
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Oh I hear it calling, calling still!
[OLD G IDER]
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And I would gladly give
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My good right leg Again
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Again!
[ALL]
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God bless the sight
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Of the old hills of Georgia
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The old red hills of home
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(Kneel down to) Praise those who fight
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For the old hills of Georgia
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For those proud and valiant men
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We'll sing "Dixie" once again
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For the men of Marrietta
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(For the the brothers of Cobb County)
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For the fathers of Atlanta
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(For the patriarchs)
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Who gave everything for Georgia
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And the old red hills of home
