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Let me tell you a story 'bout a girl I knew
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Fairest skin with eyes of blue
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I swear to the Lord that I loved her true
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It's a year now she's been gone


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Well her spirit was as bright as the soft sunshine
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Lips, the colour strawberry wine
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I wish to God, she still was mine
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The chance won't come again

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After first, we lay in love's sweet bed
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With one look at her eyes, I might have read
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All the pain that was flying through her head
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Through my guilt I could not see


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Oh I turned to her when the morning came
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Hungry thoughts racing through my brain
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But the knife in her heart screamed herself she'd slain
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And a note whispered love too soon


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Her old man screamed and her mother cried
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All I could do was to wonder why
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A girl in her youth was forced to die
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Is loving such a crime?

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She died Few in years with breasts still small
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Seeing sixteen summers and fifteen falls
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Me and my blindness never realized all
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The fear she kept inside

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Let me tell you a story 'bout a girl I knew
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Fairest skin with eyes of blue
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I swear to the Lord that I loved her true