| Black Jack David is the name that I bear
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| Been alone in the forest for a long time
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| But the time is coming when a lady I’ll find
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| I will love her, hold her
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| Singing through the green green trees
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| And the skin on my hands is like the leathery hide
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| And my face is hard from the cold wind
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| But my heart so warm with the song that I sing
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| Would charm a fair lady
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| Singing through the green green trees
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| Fair Eloise rode out that day
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| From her fine fine home in the morning
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| In the flush of the dawn came a sound to her ear
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| Drifting and floating
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| Singing through the green green trees
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| Now fifteen summers was all that she’d seen
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| And her skin was as soft as the velvet
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| But she’s forsaken her fine fine home
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| And Black Jack David is
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| Singing through the green green trees
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| Last night she slept on a fine feather bed
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| Far far from Black jack David
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| But tonight she will sleep on the cold cold ground
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| And love him and hold him
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| Singing through the green green trees
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| Saddle me up my fine gray mare
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| Cried the lord of the house next morning
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| For the servants tell me my daughter’s gone
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| With Black Jack David
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| Singing through the green green trees
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| And he rode all day and he rode all night
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| But he never did find his daughter
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| But he heard from afar come adrift on the wind
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| Two voices laughing
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| Singing through the green green trees
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| Oh Black Jack David is the name that I bear
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| Been alone in the forest for a long time
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| But now I have found me a lady so fair
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| I will love her and hold her
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| Singing through the green green trees |