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3 She only found two marrowbones, An' she told him to eat them all,
Says, "Now, Pm blin', my dear young wife, An' I jes' can't see at all.
4 "Honey, I would go and drown myself If I only knew the way."
Says, "Now, my dear, come and go with me, Mother's 'fraid you'll run astray."
5 Goes way down by the riverside, For to see her old man drown.
"My dear kind wife, I cannot drown, Unless you shove me in."
6 She gits way back, takes a little runnin' start, Gonna shove her old man in;
Old man jumps just a little one side, An' a-headlong She jumps in.
7 She whoops and she hollers*,
Just as loud as any woman could squall; Old man know his sweet wife's dyin', An' cannot see at all.
8 Old man bein' so kind-hearted,
Knowin' too his sweet wife could not swim, Reached right down and git a long pole And he shoves her further in.
9 Come all you young, hasty women, An' take warnin' after me,
Don't never try to drown a po' old man That's blind so he cannot see.
Chorus:
Love my darlin'-o, I love my darlin'-o.
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