I've traveled o'er this country wide a seeking fortune fair

I've been down the two coast lines, I've traveled everywhere

From Portland East and Portland West and back along the line

I'm going now to a place that's best, that old home town of mine

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Eight more miles and Louisville will come into 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 rambling through the land

I'm on my way this very day to win her heart and hand

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Eight more miles and Louisville will come into my view…

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 Ohio by a place called Louisville