| I wake up early every morning
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| With just one tear in my eye
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| I remember late one evening
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| My sweet baby said goodbye to me
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| Oh yes, she did
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| I cried so hard when she left me
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| I just rolled up in a great big ball
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| All my life drained from my body
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| 'Cause that one tear
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| That one tear just wouldn’t fall
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| How I tried to forget her
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| But this one tear won’t set me free
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| I didn’t know till she went away
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| Just how much that woman meant to me
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| Ooh yes, she did
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| Without her my life is nothing
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| Even though she let me down
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| If my baby don’t come home to me
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| In this one tear
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| In this one tear I’m gonna drown
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| Every night I, I say a prayer
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| And I whisper something, Lord
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| I’ve got to get my baby back
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| So this one tear
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| So this one tear will let me go
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| You, my baby, stop my crying
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| I, I, I’ve been slowly dying
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| Want to feel me
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| Want to free me
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| You, my baby, stop my crying
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| I, I, I’ve been slowly dying
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| Want to feel me
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| Want to free me |