Chorus)

Flat River, MO, Flat River, MO.

It's been a many a day since I watched her waters flow

If I ain't a got the money to pay

I'm gonna walk every step of the way

Cause I gotta go, back to Flat River, MO.



The clothes on my back have been friends with the ground too long

And my foolish dream of wealth and fame is gone

Each day the hand of failure, wakes me up at the break of dawn

and tells me to go back home to Flat River, MO.



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I wonder, if Mary's heart has ventured and grown fond

I wonder, if the baby calls her Mom

At night when the city lights and neon signs come on

they don't shine like the moon back home over Flat River, MO.



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