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Tom T. Hall - That's How I Got to Memphis
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Tom T. Hall - Way I've Always Been
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Tom T. Hall - A Bar With No Beer
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Tom T. Hall - A Million Miles to the City
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Tom T. Hall - A Picture of Your Mother
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Tom T. Hall - A Week in a Country Jail
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Tom T. Hall - Adventures Of Linda Bohannon
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Tom T. Hall - Ain't Got the Time
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Tom T. Hall - All You Want When You Please
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Tom T. Hall - America the Ugly
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Tom T. Hall - And I Love You So
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Tom T. Hall - Another Town
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Tom T. Hall - Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents a Gallon
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Tom T. Hall - Back When The Old Homeplace Was New
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Tom T. Hall - Back When We Were Young
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Tom T. Hall - Ballad of Bill Crump
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Tom T. Hall - Ballad of Forty Dollars
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Tom T. Hall - Barn Dance
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Tom T. Hall - Beautiful River Of Life
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Tom T. Hall - Beauty Is a Fading Flower
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Tom T. Hall - Beer Drinker's Waltz
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Tom T. Hall - Big Motel on the Mountain
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Tom T. Hall - Bill Monroe For Breakfast
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Tom T. Hall - Bluegrass Festival in the Sky
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Tom T. Hall - Bourbon Man
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Tom T. Hall - Burning Bridges
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Tom T. Hall - Canadian Women Canadian Clubs
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Tom T. Hall - Candy in the Window
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Tom T. Hall - Carter Boys
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Tom T. Hall - Chattanooga Dog
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Tom T. Hall - Christmas Is
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Tom T. Hall - Cloudy Day
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Tom T. Hall - Come On Back To Nashville
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Tom T. Hall - Coming to the Party
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Tom T. Hall - Coot Marseilles Blues
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Tom T. Hall - Country Cabin-Itis
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Tom T. Hall - Country Is
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Tom T. Hall - Dark Hollow
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Tom T. Hall - Deal
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Tom T. Hall - Different Feeling
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Tom T. Hall - Do It to Someone You Love
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Tom T. Hall - Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe
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Tom T. Hall - Easter Is
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Tom T. Hall - Everybody Loves to Hear a Bird Sing
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Tom T. Hall - Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels
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Tom T. Hall - Fallen Women
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Tom T. Hall - Famous In Missouri
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Tom T. Hall - Faster Horses (Cowboy and the Poet)
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Tom T. Hall - Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)
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Tom T. Hall - Flat-Footin' It
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Tom T. Hall - Forbidden Flowers
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Tom T. Hall - Forget It
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Tom T. Hall - Fox on the Run
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Tom T. Hall - From a Mansion To a Honky Tonk
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Tom T. Hall - From A Mansion To A Honky-Tonk
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Tom T. Hall - George (And The North Woods)
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Tom T. Hall - George and the North Woods
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Tom T. Hall - Gimme Peace
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Tom T. Hall - Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time
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Tom T. Hall - Girl You Sure Know How To Say Goodbye
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Tom T. Hall - Girls in Saigon City
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Tom T. Hall - God Came Through Bellville Georgia
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Tom T. Hall - God Came Through Bellville, Georgia
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Tom T. Hall - Gone to Hell in a Basket
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Tom T. Hall - Goodbye Cowgirl
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Tom T. Hall - Grandma Whistled
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Tom T. Hall - Greed Kills More People Than Whiskey
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Tom T. Hall - Halloween Is
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Tom T. Hall - Hang Them All
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Tom T. Hall - Happy Groundhog Day
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Tom T. Hall - Harmonica Man
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Tom T. Hall - Harper Valley P.T.A.
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Tom T. Hall - High Steppin' Proud
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Tom T. Hall - Highways
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Tom T. Hall - Hitchhiker
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Tom T. Hall - Homecoming
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Tom T. Hall - How to Talk to a Little Baby Goat
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Tom T. Hall - I Can't Dance
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Tom T. Hall - I Care
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Tom T. Hall - I Couldn't Live In Southern California
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Tom T. Hall - I Don't Want My Golden Slippers
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Tom T. Hall - I Feel Like Flying Away
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Tom T. Hall - I Flew Over Our House Last Night
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Tom T. Hall - I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
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Tom T. Hall - I Know Who I'll Be Seeing in New Zeland
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Tom T. Hall - I Left You Some Kisses On The Door
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Tom T. Hall - I Like Beer
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Tom T. Hall - I Like to Feel Pretty Inside
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Tom T. Hall - I Love
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Tom T. Hall - I Miss a Lot of Trains
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Tom T. Hall - I Only Think About You When I'm Drunk
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Tom T. Hall - I See
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Tom T. Hall - I Still Care What Happens To You
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Tom T. Hall - I Took a Memory to Lunch
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Tom T. Hall - I Want to See the Parade
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Tom T. Hall - I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew
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Tom T. Hall - I Wish I Had a Million Friends
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Tom T. Hall - I Wish I Loved Somebody Else
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Tom T. Hall - I'd Rather Die Young
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Tom T. Hall - I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again
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Tom T. Hall - I'm a Cowboy Too
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Tom T. Hall - I'm Forty Now
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Tom T. Hall - I'm Not Ready Yet
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Tom T. Hall - It Feels Better Now
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Tom T. Hall - It Rained In Every Town Except Paducah
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Tom T. Hall - It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines
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Tom T. Hall - It's All In The Game
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Tom T. Hall - It's Got to Be Kentucky for Me
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Tom T. Hall - Jesus On The Radio (daddy On The Phone)
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Tom T. Hall - Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You
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Tom T. Hall - Joe, Don't Let Your Music Kill You
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Tom T. Hall - Kentucky Feb 27.'71
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Tom T. Hall - Kentucky in the Morning
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Tom T. Hall - L.A. Blues
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Tom T. Hall - Last Country Song
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Tom T. Hall - Last Hard Town
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Tom T. Hall - Legend Of The Lady Bear
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Tom T. Hall - Letters
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Tom T. Hall - Life Don't Have To Mean Nothing At All
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Tom T. Hall - Little Bitty
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Tom T. Hall - Little Brown Suitcase
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Tom T. Hall - Little Green Flower With The Yellow On Top
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Tom T. Hall - Little Lady Preacher
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Tom T. Hall - Local Flowers
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Tom T. Hall - Loneliest Girl in the Crowd
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Tom T. Hall - Looking Forward to Seeing You Again
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Tom T. Hall - Lost In Florida
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Tom T. Hall - Love's Been Good to Me
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Tom T. Hall - Lovin' Arms
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Tom T. Hall - Lying Jim
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Tom T. Hall - Mabel You Have Been a Friend To Me
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Tom T. Hall - Magnificent Music Machine
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Tom T. Hall - Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)
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Tom T. Hall - Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
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Tom T. Hall - Man Who Hated Freckles
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Tom T. Hall - Man Who Shot Himself
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Tom T. Hall - Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
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Tom T. Hall - Mc Leay Street In Sydney
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Tom T. Hall - Mcleay Street In Sydney
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Tom T. Hall - Me and Jesus
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Tom T. Hall - Me And Jimmie Rodgers
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Tom T. Hall - Molly And Tenbrooks
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Tom T. Hall - Monkey That Became President
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Tom T. Hall - More About John Henry
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Tom T. Hall - Mr. Bojangles
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Tom T. Hall - My Heroes Have Always Been Highways
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Tom T. Hall - Myra
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Tom T. Hall - Mysterious Fox of Fox Hollow
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Tom T. Hall - Nashville Is a Groovy Little Town
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Tom T. Hall - Negatory Romance
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Tom T. Hall - Never Having You
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Tom T. Hall - No New Friends Please
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Tom T. Hall - No One Feels My Hurt
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Tom T. Hall - Ode to a Half a Pound of Ground Round
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Tom T. Hall - Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine
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Tom T. Hall - Old Enough to Want to (Fool Enough to Try)
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Tom T. Hall - Old Five and Dimers Like Me
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Tom T. Hall - Old Habits Die Hard
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Tom T. Hall - Old Side Of Town
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Tom T. Hall - Ole Lonesome George the Basset
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Tom T. Hall - One Hundred Children
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Tom T. Hall - One More Song for Jesus
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Tom T. Hall - One Of The Mysteries Of Life
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Tom T. Hall - Over and Over Again
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Tom T. Hall - Over the Rainbow
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Tom T. Hall - P.S. I Love You
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Tom T. Hall - Pamela Brown
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Tom T. Hall - Pay No Attention to Alice
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Tom T. Hall - People As Crazy As Me
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Tom T. Hall - Picture of Your Mother
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Tom T. Hall - Piece of the Road
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Tom T. Hall - Pinto the Wonder Horse Is Dead
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Tom T. Hall - Pisty
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Tom T. Hall - Pratt Street
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Tom T. Hall - Promise and the Dream
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Tom T. Hall - Raking Up Leaves
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Tom T. Hall - Ramona's Revenge
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Tom T. Hall - Rank Strangers
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Tom T. Hall - Rattle Mouse
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Tom T. Hall - Ravishing Ruby
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Tom T. Hall - Redneck Riviera
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Tom T. Hall - Rolling Mills of Middletown
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Tom T. Hall - Royal Annie
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Tom T. Hall - Running Wild
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Tom T. Hall - Sad Song For My Friend
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Tom T. Hall - Salute to a Switchblade
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Tom T. Hall - Saturday Morning Song
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Tom T. Hall - Second Handed Flower
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Tom T. Hall - Secondhanded Flowers
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Tom T. Hall - Senior Citizen Star
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Tom T. Hall - Shame on the Rain
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Tom T. Hall - She Gave Her Heart to Jethro
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Tom T. Hall - Ships Go Out
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Tom T. Hall - Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore
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Tom T. Hall - Shoeshine Man
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Tom T. Hall - Sing a Little Baby to Sleep
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Tom T. Hall - Singer's Song
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Tom T. Hall - Six O'clock News
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Tom T. Hall - Sky Blue True
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Tom T. Hall - Sneaky Snake
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Tom T. Hall - Soldier Of Fortune
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Tom T. Hall - Son Of Clayton Delaney
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Tom T. Hall - Song for Uncle Curt
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Tom T. Hall - Song of the One Legged Chicken
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Tom T. Hall - Songwriter
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Tom T. Hall - Souvenirs
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Tom T. Hall - Spokane Motel Blues
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Tom T. Hall - St. George Isle
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Tom T. Hall - St. Louis Named a Shoe After Me
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Tom T. Hall - Story of Your Life Is in Your Face
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Tom T. Hall - Strawberry Farms
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Tom T. Hall - Subdivision Blues
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Tom T. Hall - Texas Never Fell In Love With Me
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Tom T. Hall - Thank You Connersville Indiana
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Tom T. Hall - Thanks Giiving Is
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Tom T. Hall - That Lucky Old Sun
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Tom T. Hall - That Song Is Driving Me Crazy
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Tom T. Hall - That'll Be All Right With Me
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Tom T. Hall - That's Why You Have To Be You
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Tom T. Hall - The Son of Clayton Delaney
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Tom T. Hall - The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
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Tom T. Hall - There Is a Miracle In You
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Tom T. Hall - They Captured The Outlaw Last Night
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Tom T. Hall - Three Sofa Story
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Tom T. Hall - Time Takes Care Of a Few Things
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Tom T. Hall - Too Many Do Goods
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Tom T. Hall - Too Many Do-Goods
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Tom T. Hall - Trees In Philadelphia
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Tom T. Hall - Trip to Hyden
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Tom T. Hall - Tulsa Telephone Book
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Tom T. Hall - Turn It on Turn It on Turn It On
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Tom T. Hall - Waiting On The Other Shoe To Fall
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Tom T. Hall - Water Blue
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Tom T. Hall - Watertown Tennessee
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Tom T. Hall - Way We Were
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Tom T. Hall - We're All In This Thing Alone
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Tom T. Hall - Week In a Country Jail
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Tom T. Hall - What A Song
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Tom T. Hall - What do You Mean When You Say Goodbye
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Tom T. Hall - When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore
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Tom T. Hall - Whiskey
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Tom T. Hall - Whiskey Castles
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Tom T. Hall - Who Needs a Baby
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Tom T. Hall - Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs
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Tom T. Hall - Whole Lot Of Love
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Tom T. Hall - Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
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Tom T. Hall - Windy City Anne
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Tom T. Hall - World According To Raymond
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Tom T. Hall - World the Way I Want It
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Tom T. Hall - Year That Clayton Delaney Died
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Tom T. Hall - You Are My Hero
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Tom T. Hall - You Love Everybody But You
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Tom T. Hall - You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)
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Tom T. Hall - Your Birthday Is
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Tom T. Hall - Your Man Loves You Honey
More About John Henry
Tom T. Hall
And these friends of mine came up and brought me this real old book
about John Henry and they told me if they let me read this old book I'd
probably write a song about it. And they did and I did and I called it
More About John Henry.)
First of all John Henry was a black man
He was born where the sun don't ever shine
He was six feet tall he didn't know his own strength
But he did not swing the hammer all the time
Of course he didn't John Henry had some women on his mind.
There was a woman cross the street named Poor Selma
Loved John Henry like a natural man
John Henry quit Poor Selma just like he was quittin' work
He loved that stinger-ree of Julie Anne
And what is it a stinger-ree is somethin' else you understand.
There was a man named Stacker Lee in Argenta a little man with a big 44
You know he shot his woman down and took a shot at Poor Selma
But ol' Stacker won't be shootin' anymore
He had to quit it John Henry laid him dead on the floor.
John Henry threw Stacker Lee in the river
Then he said I've got a say so to say
He broke out in a song that was wrote by Blind Leonard
He said Julie Anne I'm singing my say
He said I love you but I do not like your lowdown ways.
Well, John Henry went to a conjurin' woman
Said this misery ain't no way to live
Somebody's back door creeping on my pretty Julie Anne
Conjure woman had a say so to give
She said, "John Henry." she said, "That's just the way things is."
Well, John Henry went to a hell bustin' man
Said I'm tormented deep in my soul
Well, that hell buster prayed John Henry's sins away
And they tell me that the thunder did roll
Sweet Jesus what a frightenin' sight to behold.
From that day on John Henry was a changed man
All he did was just work all the time
Well, he worked till the muscles in his body gave out
Then he kept right on a workin' in his mind
Don't do it cause a man ain't supposed to work all the time.
Julie Anne said John Henry I love you
Poor Selma said John Henry you're my man
Ruby said I'm gonna cook ye up some greens and some lean meat
With corn bread in a four foot pan
With lotsa cracklins but John Henry was a diff'rent kinda man.
Well, they allow that hard work killed John Henry, hmm
I'm gonna leave that allowin' up to you, hmm
Well, was he killed by hard work or was he killed by bad women
Be sure that this ain't happenin' to you.
Quit working when your day's work work is through
'Cause a man ain't supposed to work all the time
And ain't that just the way the things is
A stinger-ree is somethin' else you understand
Quit working when your your day's work is through God bless you...