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There's a little white note on the gate by the road
That a man put there yesterday
Left allemande your corner
Come back a dosado
Left allemande that corner weave the ring
And when we read it, my eyes filled with tears
Swing that girl and promenade
Something about mortgage
Something about foreclosure
Something about having to pay

Heads promenade, go halfway around
Come down the middle and square thru 4
Go all the way around, touch 1/4 there
Girls run around a boy, box the gnat
Square thru go, 4 hands around you know
Trade by, swing and promenade
My daddy stopped talking the day
The farm was auctioned
There was nothing left to say

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Oh my mother's tears flowed freely down
As she walked among the flowers in the yard
Left allemande your corner
Come back a dosado
Left allemande the corner, weave that ring
With every number that the auctioneer called
Swing that girl around and promenade
While everything was auctioned
We stood there a-watching
While they loaded it and drove it away

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And on the post by the General Store
They put up a little sign
Left allemande your corner, come back a dosado
Left allemande that corner, weave the ring
Thirty years of farming
Thirty years of heartache
Thirty years of day to day
Swing that girl around and promenade
My daddy stopped talking the day
The farm was auctioned
There was nothing left to say