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Long long ago in a house up the road

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Lived a maiden so beautiful.

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Day after day she looked the same old way

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As the sun shone off her hair of gold.

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Someday I would go there and ask for her hand

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Just as soon as I become a man.


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In the afternoon she'd sit in the shade

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And wave as I watched from down the road.

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Time after time I wished my head to lay

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In her arms and at last she would know.

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Then one day a stranger came to call

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And took her far away from down the road.

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I watched 'til the dusk from the fields down below,

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But in vain for the night began to fall.

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Then came the message that summoned me to town,

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And my knees gave way to the ground.


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Spoken: They say that this message came with her dying breath,

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The very last words she ever spoke:

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"Give my love to the boy down the road,

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And tell him not to cry, for I know."