I been down in Pennsylvania
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Where I was working in the mine
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And I been down in Cincinnati
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They laid me off the assembly line
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Yeah, they got me looking everywhere
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But I ain’t too proud of what I found
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And you can’t name where I ain’t been down
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'Cause there ain’t no place I ain’t been down
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I was down in Kansas City
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Where even the blues sell by the pound
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And I been down in New York City, brother
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And that ain’t no place to be down
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Yeah, I’m a-looking at the face of the children
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You see, we’re looking for a higher ground
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And you can’t name where we ain’t been down
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'Cause there ain’t no place we ain’t been down
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We fell down somewhere
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Between the cities and the towns
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We went down, I know
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Between the smiles and the frowns
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And if they call me in the morning
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I mean, I’d recognize the sound
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'Cause you can’t name where we ain’t been down
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There ain’t no place we ain’t been down
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Standing in the shadows
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It sho’nuff looks like rain
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I see the steel-gray clouds above me
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Yeah, well the anguish and the pain
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Yeah, I been looking everywhere for peace
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But I swear, there just ain’t none around
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But you can’t name where I ain’t been down
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'Cause there ain’t no place I ain’t been down
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We been down
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Between the cities and the towns
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Yeah, been down somewhere
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Between the smiles and the frowns
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And if they call me in the morning
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I mean, I’d recognize the sound
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'Cause you can’t name where I ain’t been down
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There ain’t no place I ain’t been down |