| I’m a-going to leave this country
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| I’m a-going around this world
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| I’m a-going to leave this country
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| For the sake of one little girl
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| Well, she told me that she loved me
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| And it give my poor heart grief
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| And she’s got her back turned on me
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| She’s courting whoever she please
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| Well, I lost my money in gambling
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| And I lost my name, you see
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| I am nobody’s darling
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| And nobody cares for me
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| Don’t you hear my banjo ringing
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| Don’t you hear this mournful sound
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| Don’t you hear those pretty girls laughing
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| Standing on the cold, cold ground
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| I’ll hang my head in sorrow
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| I’ll hang my head and cry
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| I’ll hang my head in sorrow
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| As my darling passes by
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| Well, I ain’t going to work tomorrow
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| And I may not work next day
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| I ain’t going to work tomorrow
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| For it be a wet, rainy day |