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Amos Burke Lyrics by Don Nix

In God We Trust

1971

[Chorus]
Amos Burke was a friend of mine
He loved to dance with Quarentine
Florentine or Laura Dime
I'd always tag along behind
[Verse 1]
I was born down in Tupelo
Twenty eight long years ago
If I knew what I now know
I never left down in Tupelo
[Chorus]
Amos Burke was a friend of mine
He loved to dance with Quarentine
Florentine or Laura Dime
I'd always tag along behind
[Verse 2]
A can of beans and a two men show
Across the country we'd a' go
From the mountains of Idaho
Down to the Gulf of Mexico
[Chorus]
Amos Burke was a friend of mine
He loved to dance with Quarentine
Florentine or Laura Dime
I'd always tag along behind
[Verse 3]
Amos taught me wrong from right
Not to hate and not to fight
But they shot him down one night
He was black, and I was white
[Chorus]
Amos Burke was a friend of mine
He loved to dance with Quarentine
Florentine or Laura Dime
I'd always tag along behind
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"Amos Burke" appears on "In God We Trust" in 1971.

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