Key: E major
Intro 1
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Em
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Verse 1
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neighborhood in which everyone was filthy rich
D
She left her parents' home and strayed with a vagabond
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D
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who made vows of love she'd never heard
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An d she believed his every word
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D
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She left no forwarding address,
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just took her youth and happiness
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As with the boy she's banished in,
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the secret sweetness of their sin
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Em
a young girl of sixteen,
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Child of springtime, still free,
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Lying here by the road
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He told her love demanded space,
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So they roamed from place to place
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she threw caution to the wind as she followed him around
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While he slowly dragged her down
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D
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So overpowering was her love that it had made
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D
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her captive of the young girl's heart and soul and mind
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In other words, love drove her blind
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Em
a young girl of sixteen,
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Child of springtime, feel free,
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Lying here by the road.
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Too much emotion for a girl,
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She let her heart become her world.
But worlds that
we are taught
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She couldn't feed him love alone
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She should have known the day would come
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D
When he would quit her just for crumbs
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He needed fresh new meat to carve
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And left her heart, soul and mind to starve
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A young girl, a young girl of sixteen, child of springtime,
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still green, lying here by the road.
Dead.
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