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Intro 1
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Verse 1
summer night along the Ouachita
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Where in a town named Mammoth Hill
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A boy was found at
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Left headless by the cotton gin mill
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John Law was slow so the road ran free
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From the swamps of Louisiana
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to the hills of Tennessee
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Then on to the Car olines
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where it brought hard times
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To many a family
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Verse 2
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One Otis Ray
Stone weren't nobody's fool
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He had the look of a righteous man
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By day he plied his trade as a teacher
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While by night getting blood on
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his hands
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For thirty five years running
high on the loose
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Indeed, it seemed Otis Ray
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Stone would never atone
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For what he done to many a poor youth
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Verse 3
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Yet the long arm of justice
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reaches far
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From the banks of the Ouachita
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to the highest star
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Like the hour hand on the
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wall
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Like a snail creep ing
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at a dead crawl
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One fine day in some
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mysterious way
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Justice finds us all
Interlude 1
It finds us all
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Verse 4
years hence on a
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Death Valley Road
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While jackin' up his broke- down car
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Came hell on wheels that
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left Otis Ray
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burnin' tar
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For three long days, not a drop on his tongue
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Suffering every crawler
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'neath the desert sun
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And old Otis Ray screamed while a
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crow picked his eyes clean
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Before his dying was done
Verse 5
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The long arm of justice
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reaches far
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From the banks of the Ouachita
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to the highest star
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Like the hour hand on the wall
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Like a snail creeping at a
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dead crawl
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One fine day in some
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mys terious way
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Justice finds us all
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Interlude 2
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Verse 6
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Now, the mortal remains
of Otis Ray Stone
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Were never made manifest
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'Cause what a crow had
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done to both his eyes
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Ten buzzards did to the
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rest
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And all that was, was a blot on the land
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in the shape of a man
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And the last of Otis Ray was
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finally swept away
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By the blowing sand
Outro 1
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