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Bayou bayou bayou bayou
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Now here's a little tale about a flock of geese
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Lookin' for a home and lookin' for a peace
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But before they're safely in the southern sand
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They gotta watch out for the critter called man
There's a goose and a gander and a goslin' child
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Headin' on south at the call of the wild
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Honk and holler as we go
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Gonna see the Gulf of Mexico
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Way up high don't fly low
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The long toms will get you from the old bayou
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Well the wind from the north it chills you to the bone
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And the call of the wild is callin' me come home
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I'll lead my band of geese a marry trip we'll navigate that mighty Mississippi'
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Honk and holler as we go
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Gonna see the Gulf of Mexico
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Way up high don't fly low
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The long toms will get you from the old bayou
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Bayou bayou bayou bayou
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Honk and holler as we go
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Gonna see the Gulf of Mexico
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Way up high don't fly low
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The long toms will get you from the old bayou
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My pappy led this band of twenty-three
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And the second in command included me
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He made one fatal slip and he flew too low
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The long tom's got him from the old bayou
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Honk and holler as we go
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Gonna see the Gulf of Mexico
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Way up high don't fly low
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The long toms will get you from the old bayou