Johnny Cash - Ride This Train (Part 4) lyrics

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Ride this train to Bogaloosa Louisiana see these swamps and forest

Man's never set foot in a lot of it

You'll find aligator mink coon possum squirrel otter and the lakes're full of fish

You'll find places so virgin and fresh

That you'd think the Lord just created it yesterday

As a matter of fact some people say when this world was made

A whole lot of it just must have looked like southern Louisiana does now

In 1788 I left Halifax Nova Scotia with about two hundred other Acadians

We made a long tiring journey south

In our party of two hundred there was this beautiful girl

That I just haven't quite been able to forget

Dorraine was her name and Dorraine and I were

Well we were kinda pledged to each other

And then we said when we got to the promised land

We'd build us a house and someday we'd have

The biggest sugar-cane plantation in the country

And I used to make Dorraine blush

When I'd tell her we'd raise the biggest family in the country too