| You ready? |
| Master number one-o-ten,
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| take one.
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| If I don’t get you, I will lose my life, a-trying,
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| If 1 don’t get you, I will lose my life,
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| oh, trying;
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| I can’t sleep at night for you resting
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| on my mind.
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| My mother told me, love will cause death,
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| My mother told me, love will cause death;
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| I’m in love with you, woman,
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| and I just can’t help myself.
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| I be’s down now, woman,
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| but I won’t be down alway, s
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| I be’s down now, woman,
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| but I won’t be down alway;
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| The sun is gonna shine in my back door
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| someday.
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| I went to the station with my ticket
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| in my hand.
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| I went to the station with my ticket
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| in my hand;
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| if I don’t get you. |
| girl, I got to leave this land. |