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By Jack Joseph Smith

Hillbilly If I ever could singe a song gonewrong Than I would have to be strong Seeing you in your White and dark I did not see a way You thought I did not love you It was not that, I left cause I could not stay It is not Or hold on either Drinking or a river The Moon is here a little bit thos evening I would leave you No matter how bad I've been Oh she is going to stick with me Even though she is not worse on the other end

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'Hillbilly' mixes song, strength, love, guilt, drinking, moonlight, leaving, and sticking together into a rough confession of attachment.

The voice keeps circling the same contradiction: he leaves because he cannot stay, but the emotional bond persists anyway. The handwritten overlay makes the page feel actively contested rather than settled.