The Oak Ridge Boys - Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight

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Mary took to running with a traveling man


Left her momma crying with her head in her hands

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Such a sad case so broken hearted


She said momma I got to go I gotta get out of here


I gotta get out of town I'm tired of hanging around

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I gotta roll on between the ditches



It's just an ordinary story bout the way things go


Round and round nobody knows

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But the highway goes on forever

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That old highway rolls on forever



Lord she never would have done it if she hadn't got drunk


If she hadn't started running with a traveling man

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If she hadn't started taking those crazy chances


She said daughter let me tell you bout the traveling kind


Everywhere he's going such a very short time

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He'll be long gone before you know it

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He'll be long gone before you know it


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She said never have I known it when it felt so good

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Never have I knew it when I knew I could

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Never have I done it when it looked so right

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Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight



This is down in the swampland anything goes


It's alligator bait and the bars don't close

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It's the real thing down in Louisiana


Did you ever see a Cajun when he really got mad


When he really got trouble like a daughter gone bad

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It gets real hot down in Louisiana



The stranger better move it or he's gonna get killed


He's gonna have to get it or a shotgun will

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It ain't no time for lengthy speeches

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There ain't no time for lengthy speeches


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She said never have I known it when it felt so good

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Never have I knew it when I knew I could

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Never have I done it when it looked so right

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Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight


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She said never have I known it when it felt so good

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Never have I knew it when I knew I could

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Never have I done it when it looked so right

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Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight



It's just an ordinary story bout the way things go


Round and round nobody knows

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But the highway goes on forever

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That old highway rolls on forever