Cedartown Georgia Lyrics - Waylon Jennings

(Mack Vickery - Sammi Smith - Charlie Cobble) 

I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia 

I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her 

She never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter 

But I married her and took her down to New Orleans. 

Bought a little house in the South French Quarter 

Got a job hookin' bales, loadin' them on a steamboat 

I give her seven days pay next day I'm broke 

When she ain't a sleepin' all day she's a primpin'. 

Every evenin' when the sun goes down 

She starts a swarmin' on Orleans town 

Walkin' into work this mornin' at daybreak 

I caught her with the tall long dandy from canebreak. 

She walked right by me and she looked right through me. 

I made up my mind what I'm a gonna do 

Eased in the pawnshop and bought a 22. 

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Watched as the roomclerk gave them a room key 

Standin' outside I could read Room 23. 

Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia 

Gonna be a lotta kin folks squallin' and a grieving 

'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathing... 

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