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Narration / Nobody Knows But Me
Hank Snow
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Then I didn't see in the mall for in 1929 when that rockwood
And places like that washed away in that flood
He came back by asphalt and down the Knoxville Division there through Maristown
And come on over on the Ken O 'odhote where I was
He had called the call office in Chattanooga and they told him where I was
And I was at the other end of the road
That's when he tried to get me to go back to New York with him
And that was the last time I've seen him, however we corresponded
Back and forth with each other during a time up until about six months before he died
And I wondered what had become of him
I'd been hearing the records and things that he had made
And then I heard that he was pretty sick
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Nobody knows about the jailhouse blues till you get within four walls
And the jailerman turns that big black key that's when your spirit falls
Then you drag yourself up to the bars and while you gaze out at the stars
This is what you say
Why did I stray from the rightous path nobody knows but me
There on the outside you all can laugh I don't need your sympathy
For after I'm paid for the liquor I've sold
I'm gonna leave this place worth my weight in gold
So why did I stray from the rightous path nobody knows but me
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When you realize that you're all alone sittin' in a two-by-four
That little cell is just a taste of hell if you ain't been there before
Well you're locked up tight but they treat you fair
You get everything that you need in there
That's just why I say
Why did I stray from the rightous path, nobody knows but me
There on the outside you all can laugh I don't need your sympathy
For after I'm paid for the liquor I've sold
I leave this place worth my weight in gold
So why did I stray from the rightous path nobody knows but me
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