Parade movie - Twenty Miles from Marietta lyrics

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DORSEY:<br>

There is a farmhouse in Marietta<br>

Kinda bettered and forlorn<br>

And in that farmhouse, fourteen years ago<br>

A girl named Mary was born<br>

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And she would dance in fields of cotton<br>

There was a tree where she could play<br>

But when her daddy died two years ago<br>

Mary and her momma moved away<br>

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It's only twenty miles from Marietta<br>

To a fact'ry in the center of this town<br>

And twenty miles was all it took<br>

To strike that sweet girl down<br>

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People of Atlanta fought for freedom to their graves<br>

But now their ciry is a fact'ry and their children are it's slaves<br>

People of Atlanta swing their city gate's wide<br>

And look at what you've wrought<br>

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