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she was something in her formative years she'd hide her accent, it would reappear when she would brag on what daddy bought last night only pretty girls were in that crowd to tease a handful of poor kids out loud and even then I knew it wasn't right Smoke Rise you were never kind good news I left you all behind there's some who hoped that it would last Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past most of the kids were better than me or at least they thought so and it was plain to see the children are cruel and I didn't have a fighting chance I wasn't a jock I wasn't a brain we weren't well off and momma couldn't explain why noone would take a poor boy to the dance Smoke Rise you were never kind good news I left you all behind there's some who hoped that it would last SongtexteSmoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past Smoke Rise you were never kind good news I left you all behind there's some who hoped that it would last Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past these old rich kids find it hard to embrance when they bus black kids from all over the place the county tried to prove their schools were all the same ol' Jim Crow tried to integrate But in the south it's hard to relate when grandpa used the "N"-word with no shame Smoke Rise you were never kind good news I left you all behind there's some who hoped that it would last Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past Aus Songtexte Mania