Twenty Miles from Marietta

Your Honor Gentlemen of the Jury

And good people of Georgia:

There is a farmhouse in Marietta

Kinda battered and forlorn

And in that farmhouse fourteen years ago

A girl named Mary was born

And she would dance in fields of cotton

There was a tree where she could play

But when her daddy died two years ago

Mary and her mama moved away

It's only twenty miles from Marietta

To a fact'ry in the center of this town

And twenty miles was all it took

To strike that sweet girl down

People of Atlanta fought for freedom to their

Twenty Miles from Marietta - Herndon Lackey