| The saddest girl in the whole wide world
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| I met her on the Quarter
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| With no regards for vagrancy, no respect for civil order
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| How young are you, I asked her
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| How old are you, young lady?
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| I’m much older than you think, 'cause I have seven babies
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| Where are those who keep these kids
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| While you’re out on the party?
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| I leave them where they are safe
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| At the church of 12th and Harding
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| The people there they know me well
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| They ask me very few questions
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| And if a child should pass before they wake, they’ll pray them into heaven
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| No love and no lover
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| A murder of crows did sing
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| We soon will discover
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| The coffin will wear our brass ring
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| So where’s the father of these kids?
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| Does he, does he help you ever?
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| I have no idea where he is
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| He don’t show his face, he knows better
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| Can I help you go tonight?
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| It would be my pleasure
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| And make sure that you arrive all right
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| Now we could leave together
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| She said, no, I don’t need your company
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| And I don’t want your pity
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| You’d be wise just to go away
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| And leave me here where I’m sitting
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| Is there nothing I can do for you?
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| Now it’s time to scatter
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| Why do you think there’s something wrong with me
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| There’s nothing really the matter?
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| No love and no lover
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| A murder of crows did sing
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| We soon will discover
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| A coffin will wear our brass ring
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| I find myself where life could go
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| I find myself each morning
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| All the duties of this world
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| Fell on my shoulders without warning
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| I make no plans, nor do I care
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| For the future called tomorrow
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| This world I’ve seen here’s never fair
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| So just leave me here with my sorrows
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| No love and no lover
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| A murder of crows did sing
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| We soon will discover
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| The coffin will wear our brass ring
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| No love and no lover
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| A murder of crows did sing
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| We soon will discover
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| A coffin will wear our brass ring
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| Wear our brass ring |