I've traveled 'round this country wide seekin' fortune fair
Up and down the two coastlines, I've been most everywhere
From Portland east, to Portland west, and back along the line
I'm goin' back to the place that's best, that old hometown of mine
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Eight more miles to Louisville, we're comin' to my view
Eight more miles on this old road and I'll never more be blue
I knew someday that I'd come back, I knew it from the start
Eight more miles to Louisville that's the hometown of my heart
There's bound to be a gal somewhere that you love best of all
Well, mine lives down in Louisville, she's long and she is tall
She's the kind that you can't find ramblin' through the land
I'm on my way this very day to win her heart and hand
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I can picture in my mind a place we'll call our home
It's a humble little shack for two, and we never more will roam
The place that's right is in my sight, it's in them bluegra** hills
Where gently flows the O-hi-o by place called Louisville
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