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Outside The Nashville City Limits
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Joan Baez
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Outside the Nashville city limits
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A friend and I did drive on a day in early winter
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I was glad to be alive
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We went to see some friends of his who lived upon a farm
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Strange and gentle country folk
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Who would wish nobody harm
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Fresh-cut sixty acres
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Eight cows in the barn
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But the thing that I remember
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On that cold day in December
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Was that my eyes they did brim over
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As we talked
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In the slowest drawl I had ever heard
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The man said, "Come with me if y'all wanna see
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The prettiest place in all of Tennessee"
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He poured us each a glass of wine and a-walking we did go
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Along fallen leaves and crackling ice
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Where a tiny brook did flow
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He knew every inch of the land
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And Lord, he loved it so
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But the thing that I remember
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On that cold day in December
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Was that my eyes were brimming over
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As we walked
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He set my down upon a stone
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Beside a running spring
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He talked in a voice so soft and clear
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Like the waters I heard sing
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He said, "We searched quite a time for a place to call our own
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There was just me and Mary John and now I guess we're home"
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I looked at the ground and wondered
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How many years they each had roamed
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And Lord, I do remember
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On that day in late December
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How my eyes kept brimming over
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As we talked
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As we walked
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And standing there with outstretched arms
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He said to me, "You know
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I can't wait till the heavy storms
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Cover the ground with snow"
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"And there on the pond the watercress
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Is all that don't turn white
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When the sun is high you squint your eyes
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And look at the hills so bright"
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And nodding his head my friend said
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"And it seems like overnight
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That the leaves come out so tender
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At the turning of the winter"
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I thought the skies they would brim over
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As we talked
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