Knew a boy down in Memphis, who thought the world of me.

Seemed to me that we would settle down and raise a family.

I was only nineteen, and he was twenty-two.

He almost had me thinking this is what we’d do, and then he said to me:

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Honey I’m the wanderin’ kind, I move from town to town.

Something’s always calling me, I just can’t settle down.

You’ve been a perfect angel, wish that I could stay.

Even as I tell you this, I know it’s now my way,

I’m the Wanderin’ Kind, the Wanderin’ Kind!

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Found a guy up in Nashville when I was twenty-nine.

Told me that he loved me over candlelight and wine.

Figured then that we’d marry, he’d spend his life with me.

But something in his eyes told me to set him free and then he said to me

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Honey I’m the wanderin’ kind, I move from town to town.

Something’s always calling me, I just can’t settle down.

You’ve been a perfect angel, wish that I could stay.

Even as I tell you this, I know it’s now my way,

I’m the Wanderin’ Kind, the Wanderin’ Kind!

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Time slipped by for some years, I was always on the run.

Traveled down a lot of roads back then, so many things I’d done.

Met a man out in Denver who asked to marry me.

But time had changed me now, it wasn’t meant to be, so I said to him:

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Honey I’m the wanderin’ kind, I move from town to town.

Something’s always calling me, I just can’t settle down.

You’ve been a perfect angel, wish that I could stay.

Even as I tell you this, I know it’s now my way,

I’m the Wanderin’ Kind, the Wanderin’ Kind!

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(Lyrics and Music by Sheryl Eppright, Copyright Oct 2021)