How Mountain Girls Can Love

Words & Music by Ruby Rakes
sung by John Denver
on Autograph (1980)

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Get at them boys, go back home, back to the girl you love.
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Treat her right, never wrong, how mountain girls can love.
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Riding at night in a high cold wind
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On the trail of the old lonesome pine,
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Thinking of you baby, feeling so blue,
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Wondering why I left you behind.
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Get at them boys, go back home, back to the girl you love.
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Treat her right, never wrong, how mountain girls can love.
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There's a lake in the hills where my true love goes.
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That's when she's thinking of me.
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Why I'm not there, only heaven knows,
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Heaven knows that's where I'd rather be.
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Get at them boys, go back home, back to the girl you love.
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Treat her right, never wrong, how mountain girls can love.
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Get at them boys, go back home, back to the girl you love.
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Treat her right, never wrong, how mountain girls can love.