Chorus) 
Flat River, MO, Flat River, MO. 
It's been a many a day since I watched her waters flow 
If I ain't a got the money to pay 
I'm gonna walk every step of the way 
Cause I gotta go, back to Flat River, MO. 

The clothes on my back have been friends with the ground too long 
And my foolish dream of wealth and fame is gone 
Each day the hand of failure, wakes me up at the break of dawn 
and tells me to go back home to Flat River, MO. 

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I wonder, if Mary's heart has ventured and grown fond 
I wonder, if the baby calls her Mom 
At night when the city lights and neon signs come on 
they don't shine like the moon back home over Flat River, MO. 

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