| If you want to see my girl
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| You better be ready, Imma show you the world
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| On a beach and on the shore
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| I’ll tell you a story and it’s all about a pearl
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| Three feet wide and crystal clear
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| It glistened in the sun it had nothing to fear
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| Many came from near and far
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| There was nothing like the beauty that they saw
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| I was sailing on the sea
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| There was nothing as far as I could see
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| When a vision of a girl
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| Blinded my eyes, she’s as pretty as a pearl
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| Swam along with us awhile
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| I was hooked, I was smitten by her smile
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| When she traded me her heart
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| I took it from her hand…
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| Why’d you give me your heart, Annie?
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| What’d I do?
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| Why’d you take my heart, Annie?
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| All you left me was a pearl
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| When I looked into my palm
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| I was swallowed by the vision that I saw
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| In this pearl of perfect white
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| I saw us together in a union of delight
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| When I looked into her eyes
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| I saw nothing but the mirror of the skies
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| I dove deep into the cold
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| I was ready to be…
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| Why’d you give me your heart, Annie?
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| What’d I do?
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| Why’d you take my heart, Annie?
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| All you left me was a pearl
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| When they pulled me from the cold
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| I wondered why I’d never felt so old
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| For my hair had turned to white
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| I’d long been dead and so had my wife
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| She had died of a broken heart
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| She was lookin' for my…
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| Why’d you give me your heart, Annie?
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| What’d I do?
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| Why’d you take my heart, Annie?
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| All you left me was a pearl |