Manassas Johnny's Garden
There's a place
I can get to
Where I'm safe
From the city blues
And its green
And its quiet
Only trouble was
I had to buy it
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And I'll do anything I got to do >
Cut my hair and shine my shoes >
And keep on singin' the blues >
If I can stay here in Johnny's garden >
As the swift bird
Flies over the grasses
Dipping now and then
To take his breakfast
Thus I come and go
And I travel
But I can watch that bird
And unravel
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With his love
And his carin'
He puts his life
Into beauty sharin'
And his children
Are his flowers
and they give me peace
In quiet hours
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