atlanta anymore

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inside a suit coat pocket in the back of his closet today, she found a letter among the bills he forgot to pay, it was addressed to a woman, a name she'd never seen before, it started out, i'm sorry, but i won't be in atlanta anymore, as she read the words he'd written, she found it hard to believe her eyes, at first she was angry then slowly she began to cry, 'cause somewhere down in georgia, he'd taken off the wedding ring he wore, and it didn't help a whole lot knowin', that he won't be in atlanta anymore, he said i won't be in atlanta anymore, and i'm sorry that i lied to you before, the truth is i got a wife and two children three and four, and i won't be in atlanta anymore, at the bottom of the last page, he'll never know the p.s. that she wrote, 'cause she folded up the pages, and slipped them back into the envelope, then she took the goodbye letter, and dropped it in the mailbox on the porch, she thought, the woman ought to know, that atlanta's not a secret anymore, she wrote, he won't be in atlanta anymore, and i don't know why he lied to you before, but, god knows, i still love him and i'm just makin' sure, that he won't be in atlanta anymore, he wrote it and she mailed it, he won't be in atlanta anymore