| I walk down that lonesome line
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| Hung down my head, I cry
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| I wept, I cried under the willow tree
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| About the deep blue sea
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| My mama, my dead papa
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| Can be found
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| And my brother
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| On the county road
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| Now I’ve been down that long plank walk
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| I’m on my way back home
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| You cause me to weep, you did cause me to mourn
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| You cause me to leave my home
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| Your fast mail train coming round the track
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| Come kill my little blue eyed girl
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| They took her down that smoky track
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| Brought her back on that cooling board
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| I’m looking down that long tunnel light
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| Just as far as I care to see
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| I have no money lost my blue eyed girl
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| These blues won’t set me free
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| You did cause me to weep, you did cause me to mourn
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| You cause me to leave my home
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| I cried last night and the night before
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| I swore not to cry anymore |