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[Verse 1]
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Mamma and daddy raisin'cotton and kids
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where the mississippi river flows.
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Planting my dreams in that black delta dirt.
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Talking about another tomorrow.
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A sharecropper shack in that hot cotton patch
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was home sweet home to me.
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And I wouldn't take a mansion in place,
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of my Mississippi memories.
[Verse 2]
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Oooo I'Oh, I'm missin' Mississippi.
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Miss that misty Delta dawn.
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Oooo I'Oh, I'm missin' Mississippi.
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Oh, I miss my Mississippi home.
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[Verse 3]
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Now the kids have grown up and Momma's passed on
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And Daddy's age is starting to show.
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Things have changed, lies a big 4-lane
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where that Delta cotton used to grow.
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But time hasn't touched my daddy's love
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for his hard working sharecropper wife.
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Cause I've overheard his soft tender words
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as he talks to her picture at night.
[Verse 4]
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Oooo I'Oh, I'm missin' Mississippi.
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Miss that misty Delta dawn.
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Oooo I'Oh, I'm missin' Mississippi.
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Oh, I miss my Mississippi home.
