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Columbus Stockade

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Columbus Stockade Lyrics

Way down in Columbus Stockade
want to be back in Tennessee
Way down in Columbus Stockade
where my friends went back on me

You can go and leave me if you want to
Never let me cross your mind
In your heart, you love another
Leave me, darling
I don't mind

(Play, boy. Play it pretty. Columbus Stockade.)

Way down in Columbus Stockade
left me there to lose my mind
Thinkin about my blue eyed Shawnee
Pretty little girl that I left behind

You can go and leave me if you want to
Never let me cross your mind
In your heart you love another
Leave me, darling
I don't mind

You can go and leave me if you want to
Never let me cross your mind
In your heart you love another
Leave me, darling
I don't mind

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sstennett On Sep 11, 2006

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2006-09-11 15:47:51

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Cover art for Columbus Stockade lyrics by Woody Guthrie

by aaronabud

16y ago

i love how completley sincere woody guthrie was. regaurdless of the alienation and lonleyness he feels in his stockade, telling his lover that shes free to leave, because he knows he cant be there for her while he's in jail, and that deep down she loves someone else.

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