N-Ma Baker's Little Acre
C-John Loudermilk
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L-      Now  a  lit-  tle old    la- dy   by  the name of Ma     Ba-ker,          Lived  out  of town   on      one     square  a- cre
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L-      In   a   lit- tle white   house          With a  pic-ket fence   all a-   round                                      She
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L-       had     a       kind     and    gen-    tle      way              Till   the    day     the     T.       V.      A.      tried to
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L-      make    Ma      Ba-   ker       sell her lit- tle a- cre of      ground.                     They showed her  a   map  of how the
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L-       ri-    ver      ran             And     a     sketch    of   a  brand    new     dam   but              Ma       Ba- ker would-nt
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L-     sell her lit- tle  a- cre of      land.                       She said,  "Pa      left    this     to       me    son- ny      and
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L-       I      would-n't sell   for    love     nor    mo- ney,  No     sir,     Ma      Ba-ker's gon-na keep her lit-tle a-cre of
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L-      land.                      Now the next  time  they came  they    brought  the  she- riff,   and  found   Ma   a- roc-kin' in an
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L-     old      porch     chair, Just a- knit-tin' and a- roc-kin'        Out     in the eve-    ning    sun;                         She
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L-     told     them     that    they'd   best  to    wait,          And  not      to     step  through the pic- ket   gate,    And
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L-      on       Ma       Ba-      kers's lap they saw Pa's old  shot-    gun.                        Now  out   in the mid-dle  of the
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L-        brand- new     lake,   is   a   lit-   tle    is-land   of      one     square   a- cre,   but  Ma     Ba-  ker's just     as
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L-       hap- py  as     she     can     be;                              She     can't  swim,   but      she     can      float,    and
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L-      catch    big    bass     from her mo-   tor     boat and when the wind    ain't  blo-wing too    much. she can   wa-     ter
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L-       ski.                    And      Ma      Ba- ker  still          owns her lit-tle a-cre of       land.