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Verse 1
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Years ago
grandaddy
Baxter gave dad 40 acres
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Daddy proudly named it Bax
Him and Mom raised seven kids
And gave us each 1 acre
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In hopes someday that's where
we all would build
Daddy's greatest dream in life was
Baxter Hill
Verse 2
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The rest all moved away but
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I stayed on with mo m and daddy
But they all gathered in when Mama
died
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They were quick decidin'
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papa couldn't handle business
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And the six of them all
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said let's subdivide
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You could see them dollar
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bill signs in their eyes
Verse 3
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Yeah, they subdivided daddy's forty acres The
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place where him and mama
worked and saved
Not out of need,
just out of greed
They built them six room houses
Bet mama's turnin' over in her
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grave
Just knowin' they've
Verse 4
done papa this away
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Well, they agreed that I could keep
The acre papa gave me
So I left that old house standin'
where it was
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And just a few days later
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Them big old yellow graders
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Started pushing up the
Tearin' up everything that
he'd dreamed of
Verse 5
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Now papa didn't say much
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He just sat there on the front porch
And watched them big bulldozers
rape his fields
He'd look straight ahead
And say I know your mama's dead
But she'll be comin' back to Baxter
Hill
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And she'll rattle chains in every room they
build
Yeah, they subdidvided daddy's forty acres
Verse 6
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But
the houses
stand there empty,cold and still
They sold a few, but the people moved
And swore they'd never come
back
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Papa just grins and says they never will
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While your Mama walks on Baxter Hill
Verse 7
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Yeah, Mama walks at night on
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Baxter Hill
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