Yankee Lady 
Jesse Winchester

written by Jesse Winchester

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I lived with the decent folks 
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In the hills of old Vermont 
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Where what you do all day 
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Depends on what you want 
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And I took up with a woman there 
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Though I was still a kid 
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And I smile like the sun 
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To think of all the loving that we did 
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She rose each morning and went off to work 
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And she kept me with her pay 
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I was making sweet love all night 
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And playing this old  guitar all day 
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And I got apple cider and homemade bread 
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That would make a man kneel down he would say grace 
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And clean linens on our bed 
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And a warm feet fire place 
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Yankee lady so good to me 
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Yankee lady just a memory 
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Yankee lady so good to me 
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Your memories gonna have to do for me 
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An autumn walk on a old country road 
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With a million flaming trees 
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I was feeling a little  uneasy 
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Cause there was winter chill in the breeze 
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And she said, "Oh Jesse, look over there, 
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I see  birds are  they are all southward bound 
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Oh Jesse, I'm so afraid 
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We are going to lose the love that we've found 
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Yankee lady so good to me 
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Yankee lady just a memory 
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Yankee lady so good to me 
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Your memories gonna have to do for me
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I don't know what called to me 
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But I know that I plain had to go 
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I left that little old  Vermont town 
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To live down in sunny Mexico 
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And now when I  can see myself 
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As a stranger by my birth 
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The Yankee lady's old memory 
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To Remind me of my worth 
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Yankee lady so good to me 
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Yankee lady just a memory 
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Yankee lady so good to me 
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Your memories gonna have to do for me


From Jesse Winchester  "Jesse Winchester" 

source: Rick

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