| Just beneath the mountain
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| Near creek and old mill
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| A town i’d like to live in
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| When i am finally still
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| I’m going there some day —
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| When all travel done
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| I’ll lay my suitcase down
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| And write my final song
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| I was not content with dreams
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| Of love, god, or ghosts
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| I was troubled to find their sense
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| In comfort or in hope
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| I’m certain to sadness and sleep
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| Tired of my peculiar tongue
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| And the brain from which it stems
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| I wonder if i have one?
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| I never sought a husband
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| Nor children or house of gold
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| Mine riches are found in reason
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| At this old trader’s post
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| So go now and set my ashes
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| To mill’s brook by and by
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| And do not sob for me my dears
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| For i cannot hear you cry! |