| Many a year ago
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| In a kingdom by the sea
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| There lived a maiden you may know
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| By the name of Annabelle Lee
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| No other thought did trouble her mind
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| But to love and be loved by me
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| We were children both
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| In this kingdom by the sea
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| But we loved with a love that was more than love
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| I and my Annabelle Lee
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| With a love that the winged angels high
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| Coveted her and me
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| This was the reason long ago
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| In this kingdom by the sea
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| A wind blew from a stormy cloud
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| That took my Annabelle Lee
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| Then her wicked brothers came
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| To steal her away from me
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| They shut her up in a tomb below
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| This kingdom by the sea
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| But no maiden’s grave could sever my soul
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| From the love she bore for me
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| For the moon don’t beam without a dream
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| Of my darling Annabelle Lee
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| For many years I’ve wandered
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| Through this kingdom by the sea
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| I’ve laid myself beside the bones
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| Of my beautiful Annabelle Lee
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| I’ll make my bed near the rising tide
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| In her tomb by the sounding sea |