Darlin Billy chords by Norma O'Hara Murphy

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Verse 1
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It Was Many Years Ago
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It was many years ago
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That you said you loved me so
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And the promise that you
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made me sounded true
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But the river had your soul
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and I knew that you would go
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For the beauty of that river held you too
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Now don't you leave me
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if you love me, darling Billy
But I don't think that I will
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make it if you go
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Cos I'm sad and oh so lonely
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And I  don't think that I will be here
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when you return, my Billy Boy
Enchantress was that river
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For she held you in her grasp
I was always standing waiting,
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all alone
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While the river lapped below me
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Always happy, fancy free
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And I guess that's why he
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loved her more than me
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So don't you leave me
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If you love me, darling, believe
Well, I don't think that I will
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make it if you go
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Because I'm sad and oh so lonely
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And I  don't think that I will be here
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when you return,
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my Billy Boy
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Now it's twenty years tomorrow
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Since the riverboats have gone
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But at times I fancy I
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can hear them still
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And my Billy, like the boats he loved,
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has gone forevermore
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But the echo of those
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words is ringing still
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Now don't you leave me
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if you love me, darling Billy
For I don't think that I will
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make it if you go
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Because I'm sad and oh so lonely
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And I  don't think that I will be here
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When you return, my Billy boy
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Now don't you leave me
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if you love me, darling Billy
But I don't think that I will
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make it if you don't
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Cause I'm sad and oh so lonely
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And I  don't think that I will be here
when you return
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My Billy Boy
We'll be here when you return,
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my Billy boy