| Where did you go?
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| By brook or by branch
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| Down a steep road
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| How did you go?
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| Like a ghost in the shipyard quarantined for foreign sins
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| And the mistakes of my youth
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| Why did you go to Parrsboro
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| When you could have stayed
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| Here with me?
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| I don’t know
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| I was growing old
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| By brook and by branch
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| Every age must pass
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| Every age must pass
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| Silently
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| Like a spook in the woods
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| Or a crow at the window calling for meat
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| I saw your name at the bottom of an old love letter
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| It was dragging like an anchor
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| At the bottom of the harbor in Parrsboro
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| In Parrsboro |