The Ballad Of John Mccrae

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[Verse]
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On the banks of the Missouri
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Annie Washed up in the clay
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And they took her to her father
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Told him it was John McCrae
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Now I'm running through the badlands
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Covering my tracks
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Northward toward Dakota
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With the devil on my back

[Chorus]
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Oh, the river flows
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To our immortal home
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Oh Annie, oh my soul

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Well I took her down by the stream side
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For to make that girl my bride
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But in the fold of her pretty white dress
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Lay her father's bowie knife
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Well she pulled that steel blade on me
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Told me she would take my life
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So I pushed her into the river
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She went under with the tide

[Chorus]
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Oh, the river flows
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To our immortal home
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Oh Annie, oh my soul

[Verse]
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I am standing at the gallows
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And the scaffold it is high
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And the hangman asked my last words
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Before I'm condemned to die
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So I begged God, "Don't forgive me
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for the trouble I have sown
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for I'll soon see my pretty Annie
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in the hell fire down below."

[Chorus]
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Oh, the river flows
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To our immortal home
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Oh Annie, oh my soul