| Lord have mercy on my mind
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| Mercy on my memory
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| I’m lying 'neath the same Virginia sky
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| Where she lay beside me, biding time
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| Trying to abide me
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| Every night when the night was long
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| She was clinging to me
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| Told me twice that her love was strong
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| Stronger than the love in old love songs
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| She was singing to me
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| O, shenandoah
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| Cross the rolling water
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| O, shenandoah
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| Where’s your restless daughter?
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| Don’t know what I gave them for
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| All my little lessons
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| How you start the peas before the corn
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| How you start before the air is warm
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| She was never listening
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| I could see it there in her sorry eyes
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| Hear it in her breathing
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| Didn’t come to me like some surprise
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| Didn’t even ask her why
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| When she said, «I'm leaving»
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| O, shenandoah
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| Cross the rolling water
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| O, shenandoah
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| Where’s your willful daughter?
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| I brought in the winter squash
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| I brought in the melon
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| Cortland, empire, macintosh
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| On the afternoon before the frost
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| I could feel it coming
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| I can see her now in her flowery clothes
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| All of those things I bought her
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| Trailing her perfume wherever she goes
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| Cross the rolling water
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| Shenandoah
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| Where’s your reckless daughter?
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| Shenandoah
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| Mercy on your daughter |