| Darlin’here’s a photograph of my old high school class
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| No I ain’t been back in quite a while
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| See there that’s Emma Lou, the one I gave my heart to But there’s a story you can’t see behind her smile
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| It was gonna last forever, we were gonna see the world
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| So I guess you’re curious just what became of her, well
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| She’s still there in Oklahoma
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| She’s still seventeen
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| She’s livin’with her Mama
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| Workin’at the Dairy Queen
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| And she’s still standin’on the front porch
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| With a red ribbon in her hair
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| The rest of us have scattered everywhere
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| But she’s still there
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| Everett went to Omaha, he majored in business law
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| Jill’s in Arkansas with husband number two
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| That’s her best friend Jolene, she joined up with the Marines
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| I hear Billy Green’s on a beach in Malibu
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| Yes and Emma would be happy if she could only see us now
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| 'Cause we’re livin’out the lives that she only dreamed about
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| She’s still there in Oklahoma
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| She’s still seventeen
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| She’s livin’with her Mama
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| Workin’at the Dairy Queen
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| And she’s still standin’on the front porch
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| With a red ribbon in her hair
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| The rest of us have scattered everywhere
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| But she’s still there
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| Lord, I know I’ll never see her
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| With silver in her hair
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| I know she’s really gone
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| But in my heart I’d swear
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| She’s still there in Oklahoma
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| She’s still seventeen
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| She’s livin’with her Mama
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| Workin’at the Dairy Queen
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| And she’s still standin’on the front porch
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| With a red ribbon in her hair
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| The rest of us have scattered everywhere
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| But she’s still there
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| Emma’s still there |