Banks of the Ohio (Kristin Hersh)

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My love asked me, to take a walk

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Just to walk, a little way

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And as we walked along we talked

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Of when would be our wedding day

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We walked beneath the whispering pines

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His heart was filled with love divine

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And as we neared the river side

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He asked me when I'd be his bride


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Oh no your bride, I'll never be

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Another one's prepared for me

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And as I drew my hand from his

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His heart was filled with fire divine

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He drew his knife across my breast

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And in his arms I  gently pressed

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Willie dear, don't murder me

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For I am not prepared to die


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He took me by my golden curls

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He drug me down to the river side

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And as he threw me into drown

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He watched me as  I  floated down

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He started home 'tween twelve and one

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Thinking on the deed he'd done

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Murdered just the one he loved

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Because  I  would not be his bride