The Girl By The River chords by The Delmore Brothers

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Verse 1
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I met a fair maiden
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so sweet and so fair
Where the white flowers
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bloomed on the shore
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And one of these flowers
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was fixed in her hair
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I can still see that flower she wore
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The girl by the river, she meets me no more
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No more do the white flowers blow
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Perhaps she will meet me
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on some distant shore
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She's gone where the white
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flowers go
We made a nice couple,
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we talked and we sang,
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So sweet was her laughter to hear.
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But the beautiful flower,
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so white without name,
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Grew closer and to her more dear.
The girl by the river,
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she meets  me no more
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No more do the white flowers blow
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Perhaps she will meet me
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on some distant shore
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She's gone where the white flowers
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go
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Through spring and through summer
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we capered around
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Through the beautiful white flowers there
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In autumn they faded and
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could not be found
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And my darling she showed a strange fear
The girl by the river she
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meets me no more
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No more do the white flowers blow
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Perhaps she will meet me
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on some distant shore
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She's gone where the white
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flowers go
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We'd made our plans for a wedding to be
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She told me that she would be mine
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One day she vanished
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and now I can't find
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My darling, my sweetheart divine
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The girl by the river, she means me no more
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No more do the wildflowers glow
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Perhaps she will meet me
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on some distant shore
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She's gone where the wildflowers go
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