Eight More Miles To Louisville by Louis M. "Grandpa" Jones "I wrote this song back around 1941. At that time Alton and Rabon Delmore had recorded a song entitled 'Fifteen Miles From Birmingham." There is no similarity between the two songs, of course, but that's where I got the idea." —Grandpa Jones Eight More Miles To Louisville I've traveled o'er this country wide, seeking fortune fair Up and down the two coast lines, I've travelled everywhere From Portland East To Portland West and back across the line. I'm going now to the place that's best, that old home town of mine. Eight more miles and Louisville will come into my view Eight more miles on this old road, I'll never more be blue I knew someday that I'd return, I knew it from the start Eight more miles to Louisville, the hometown of my heart. There's bound to be a girl somewhere that you like best of all. Mine lives out in Louisville, she's long and she's 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 and hand. I can picture in my mind a place that we'll call home A humble little house for two, we never more will roam A place that's right for that love sight is in those blue grass hills. There gently flows the Ohio by a place called Louisville.