| Oh, there isn’t any water
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| There isn’t any water
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| There isn’t any water in the well
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| Oh, the ground is mighty dry
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| Not a cloud up in the sky
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| There ain’t no water in the well
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| Bone dry, bone dry
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| Everything at home is bone dry
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| Dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| Dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| Everything at home is bone dry
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| Take a bucket down the road, take a bucket down the road
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| A bucket down the road, little Nell
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| Go ahead, my little daughter
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| Try to steal the neighbor’s water
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| 'Cause there ain’t no water in the well
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| Bone dry, bone dry
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| Everything at home is bone dry
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| Dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| Dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| Everything at home is bone dry
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| Oh, there ain’t no use in tryin', there ain’t no use in tryin'
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| There ain’t no use in tryin', little Nell
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| There ain’t no use in tryin'
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| I hear the neighbors cryin'
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| 'Cause there ain’t no water in the well
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| Bone dry, bone dry
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| Everything at home is bone dry
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| Dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| Dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| Everything at home is dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| We better start a-prayin', we better start a-prayin'
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| We better start a-prayin', little Nell
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| Oh, we better start a-prayin' for the Lord to start a-rainin'
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| There ain’t no water in the well
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| Bone dry, bone dry
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| Everything at home is bone dry
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| Dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| Dry as a bone (Bone dry)
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| Everything at home is bone dry
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| Bone, bone dry
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| Bone, bone dry
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| Everything at home is bone, bone dry |