Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South

Joan Baez

[Intro]
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{ CHORUS }
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Take me back to the place where I first saw the light
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To my sweet sunny south, take me home
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Where the wild birds sing me to sleep every night
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Oh why was I tempted to roam
 
 
[Verse]
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The path to our cabin they say has grown green
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And the stones are quite mossy around
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And I know that the places and the forms that I love
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Now lie in the cold mossy ground
 
 

{ CHORUS }
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Take me back to the place where I first saw the light
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To my sweet sunny south, take me home
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Where the wild birds sing me to sleep every night
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Oh why was I tempted to roam
 
 
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Take me back to the place where the orange trees grow
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To my place in the evergreen shade
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Where the flowers on the river's green margins do grow
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And share their sweet scent with the glade

 
 
{ CHORUS }
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Take me back to the place where I first saw the light
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To my sweet sunny south, take me home
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Where the wild birds sing me to sleep every night
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Oh why was I tempted to roam
 
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