Orphan
She used to say she was an orphan
It never was exactly the truth
It’s just her mother got tired
Tired of her hanging around
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So she ended up living in a home for girls
She's a straight hair kid in a house full of curls
A straight haired kid
Always hanging around
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She’d sing swing low
Sweet chariot
She’s coming
She's gonna carry me home
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So the first chance she got she said I do
To a tall town boy he said me too
Honorable mention all district quarterback
He said I’ll carry you away
She left him drunk on a stool in a county line bar
Going on about high school
How he was a star
She just got tired, tired of him hanging around
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She’d sing swing low
Sweet chariot
She’s coming
She's gonna carry me home
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She got a job at the Dairy Queen
Had two baby boys, two more diamond rings
And the husbands, well they were brave
But she split that one horse town
Just got tired all the people that's hanging around
She split that one horse town
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Now she lives outside LA
With a broke down baseball player
Used to play double A
A religious man, he never drinks or swears
But she’s tired of all this talk about her
Getting saved
Tired of all the talk of revelation days
She’s tired, she's tired of him hanging around
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She sings swing low
Sweet chariot
She’s coming
Gonna carry me home
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She sings swing low
Sweet chariot
She’s coming
She's gonna carry me home
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Appears on pretty world and The Pretty World Trilogy
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