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1. I once loved a beautiful maiden,
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as fair as the blue skies above,
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and each night as we wandered together,
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the moon seemed to smile on our love.
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We vowed to be true to each other,
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that nothing could cause us to part,
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but we never once dreamed that the future
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held only a broken heart
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2. Then there came the night when we parted,
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we quarreled as all sweethearts do.
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And I learned what it was to be jealous,
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when they told me her love was untrue.
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She told me she had always been faithful,
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she swore that her love could not die.
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And then when I did not believe her,
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she kissed me and told me goodbye.
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Oh-de-lay-ee-oh, de-lay-ee, yo-de-lay-ee.
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3. I found I had falsely accused her,
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and went back to make her my bride.
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And there in the door stood her mother
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she told me my sweetheart had died.
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I went in and knelt down beside her,
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and there in the hush of that room,
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I prayed that my maker would take me,
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and send my soul down to its doom.
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4. So now I have told you the reason,
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there's always a tear in my eye,
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through long, weary years I've repented,
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but I'm longing to lay down and die.
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And I wonder if I'll be forgiven,
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when I face the master someday.
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And I wonder if I'll see my sweetheart
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on that beautiful shore far away.
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Oh-de-lay-ee-oh, de-lay-ee, yo-de-lay-ee.
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