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Baby's gone and I don't know why |
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She let out this morning |
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Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky |
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She left me without warning |
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Sooner than the dogs could bark |
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Faster than the sun rose |
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Down to the banks on an old mule car |
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She took a flatboat 'cross the shallow |
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Left me in my tears to drown |
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She left a baby daughter |
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Now the river's wide and deep and brown |
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She's crossing muddy waters |
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Tobacco standing in the fields |
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Be rotten, come November |
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And a bitter heart will not reveal |
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A spring that love remembers |
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When that sweet brown girl of mine |
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Hair, black eyes are raven |
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We broke the bread and drank the wine |
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From a jug that she'd been saving |
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Left me in my tears to drown |
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She left a baby daughter |
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Now the river's wide and deep and brown |
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And she's crossing muddy waters |
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Baby's crying and the daylight's gone |
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That big oak tree is groaning |
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In a rush of wind and a river of song |
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I can hear my true love moaning |
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Crying for her baby child |
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Or crying for her husband |
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Crying for that rivers wild |
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To take her from her loved ones |
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Left me in my tears to drown |
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She left a baby daughter |
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Now the river's wide and deep and brown |
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And she's crossing muddy waters |
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Now the river's wide and deep and brown |
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And she's crossing muddy waters |
