EIGHT MORE MILES TO LOUISVILLE
(Louis Marshall Jones)

I've traveled o'er this country wide

A seekin' fortune fair

I've been down the two coast lines

I've traveled every where

From Portland East and Portland West

And back along the line

I'm goin' now to a place that's best

That old home town of mine.      

Eight more miles and Louisville

Will come in to my view

Eight more miles on this old road

And I 'll never more be blue

I knew some day that I'd come back

I knew it from the start

Eight more miles to Louisville

The home town of my heart.

There's sure to be a girl somewhere

That you like best of all

Mine lives down in Louisville

She's long and she is tall

But she's the kind that you can't find

A ramblin' through the land

I'm on my way this very day

To win her heart and hand.

Eight more miles and Louisville

Will come in to my view

Eight more miles on this old road

And I 'll never more be blue

I knew some day that I'd come back

I knew it from the start

Eight more miles to Louisville

The home town of my heart.

Now I can picture in my mind

A place we'll call our home

A humble little hut for two

We'll never want to roam

The place that's right for that love site

Is in those bluegrass hills

Where gently flows the O-hi-o

By a place called Louisville.

Eight more miles and Louisville

Will come in to my view

Eight more miles on this old road

And I 'll never more be blue

I knew some day that I'd come back

I knew it from the start

Eight more miles to Louisville

The home town of my heart.

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