Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was asked to a wedding
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who proved to me unkind
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For that day as she thought of her
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intended young lov er
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Thoughts of her old one had
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run through her mind
Verse 2
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Supper being over and all
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things were ended
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sing a fine song
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Until it came to the turn
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of her own foreign lover
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And the song that he sang
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to the bride did belong
Verse 3
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How can you sit at an
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other man's table
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How can you drink of an
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other man's wine
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How can you lie in the arms
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of another
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Many's the night, love,
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that you lay in mine
Verse 4
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seven years parted
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did return again
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But I have only been two years away,
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love
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Two years away, love,
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and did return again
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Verse 5
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the head of the table
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the song did belong
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Her heart it grew faint,
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she could stand it no longer
Down at the feet of the bride
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groom she fell
Verse 6
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Sobbing and sighing she rose
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from the table
Sobbing and sighing
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she went to her bed
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Early next morning the
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He turned to embrace her and
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found she was dead
Verse 7
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I knew you never loved me
My love and your love could
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never agree
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For I knew all along that your
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All for the sake of
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a foreign young man"
Verse 8
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So now I must wear a
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frock of deep mourning
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A frock of deep mourning,
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one, two and three
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I must wear to her wake my
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own wedding garment
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Ne'er again shall I go
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between the bark and the tree
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