Way Down in Mississippi

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Way down in Mississippi I’ve got the music in my bones

I’ll take you there if you want to go with me

I’m gonna go back home

I’m gonna go back home

Mama and daddy always had something going

Whether we was

Home or driving around

The very first thing that I remember is singing along to that country sound

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We went to church with jumping and a shouting

Singing hallelujah and clapping hands

I joined in with that choir singing one day we’re gonna join

That angel band

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Tuesday nights we’d all get together

Singing Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe

I still love that bluegrass picking I learned to sing high lonesome way down low

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I grew up and I started playing

And it ain’t Mississippi wit

Hout the blues

Everything changed on that old front porch with JC Cannon taught me that groove

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After a while I made my way to Texas

I learned how the poets did it their own way

But I wouldn’t be here making this music if it weren’t for the sound of my younger days

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