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I'm a stranger here, just blowed in your town
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I'm a stranger here, just blowed in your town
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Just because I'm a stranger everybody wants to dog me around
[Verse]
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Lord, I wonder do my good gal know I'm here?
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Lord, I wonder do my good gal know I'm here
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Well, if she do she sure don't seem to care
[Verse]
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How can some people dog a poor stranger so
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How can some people dog a poor stranger so
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They should remember they gonna reap what they sow
[Verse]
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I would stay up North but nothing here that I can do
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I would stay up North but nothing here that I can do
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Just hang around the corner and sing the poor stranger blues
[Solo]
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[Verse]
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Mama, I'm going back South if I wear ninety-nine pairs of shoes
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Mama, I'm going back South if I wear ninety-nine pairs of shoes
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Then I know I'll be welcome and I won't have the stranger's blues
