| My baby I know that you want me
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| Each lonely night and day
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| Your dear blue eyes how they haunt me
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| Though you’re far away
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| Oh why did she take you away from my arms
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| And leave nothing to cherish there
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| She’s left me so blue but when she took you too
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| It seemed more than I could bear
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| My baby I want you tonight dear
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| After my work is through
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| To rock you to sleep in my arms dear
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| And sing lullaby’s to you
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| I-dee-ho-lay-ee, oh-dee-oh-dee-ee-ee-lay-oh-ee-ee
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| I-dee-lay-dee-ho-lay-ee, dee-oh-dee-oh-lay-ee-oh-lay-ee
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| Dee-oh-dee-oh-lay-ee-ee-oh-lay-ee-ee
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| I dream of your baby caresses
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| Dimples and golden hair
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| I reach out to clasp you in my arms
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| And find only emptiness there
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| Your future has been the chief aim of my life
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| You’ll never know what it means
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| My plans and my schemes are all blasted it seems
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| For you are mine only in dreams
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| My baby I want you tonight dear
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| After my work is through
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| To rock you to sleep in my arms dear
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| And sing lullaby’s to you
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| Oh-dee-lay-ee-I-oh-lay-ee-oh-oh-lay-ee |