On Top Of Old Smoky

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On top of Old Smokey all covered with snow,
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I lost my true lover for courtin' so slow
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Now, courtin' is a pleasure and partin' is grief,
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And a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief.

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For a thief will just rob you and take what you save,
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But a false-hearted lover will lead you to your grave.
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And the grave will decay you and turn you to dust;
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Not one man in 10 thousand a poor girl can trust.

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They'll hug you and kiss you and tell you more lies
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Than crossties on a railroad or stars in the sky.
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They'll throw their arms around you and give your heart ease,
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But the minute your back's turned they love whom they please

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Come all you young women take a warnin' from me
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Never place your affections on a green growin' tree
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The leaves they will wither the roots they will die
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You'll all be forsaken and never know why

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Yet if I am forsaken I'll not be forsworn,
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And he sure is mistaken if he thinks I will mourn.
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Oh Johnny is a young man but still younger am I,
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And often, as he told me, that he'd wed me or die

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C             C          F            C
On top of Old Smokey all covered with snow,
  C            C         F           C
I lost my true lover for courtin' so slow
     C             Am           C          Am
Now, courtin' is a pleasure and partin' is grief,
      C             C        F            C
And a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief.