I've traveled o 'er this country wide a -seekin' fortune fair
I've been down the two coastlines, I've traveled everywhere
From
Portland east to
Portland west and back across the line I'm a -goin' now to a place that's best,
that old hometown of mine
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 someday that I'd come back,
I knew it from the start
Eight more miles to
Louisville, the hometown of my heart
There's sure to be a gal somewhere
that you'd like best of all
Now mine lives down in
Louisville, she's long and she is tall
But she's the kind that you can't
find a -ramblin' through the land
I'm on my way this very day
to win her heart in hand
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 someday that I'd come back,
I knew it from the start
Eight more miles to
Louisville, the hometown of
my heart
Now I can picture in my mind a
place we'll call our home
A humble little cot partout
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
Eight more miles in
Louisville will come into my view
Ain't more miles on this old road
and I'll never more be blue
I knew someday that I'd come back,
I knew it from the start
Ain't more miles to
Louisville, the hometown of my heart