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Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter, |
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Way hey you rolling river |
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I'll take her cross yon rolling water |
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Away, we're bound away |
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Cross the wide Missouri |
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The chief disdained the trader's dollar |
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Way hey you rolling river |
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My daughter you shall never follow |
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Away, we're bound away |
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Cross the wide Missouri |
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For seven years I courted Sally |
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Way hey you rolling river |
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For seven more, I longed to have her |
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Away, we're bound away |
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Cross the wide Missouri |
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She said she would not be my lover |
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Way hey you rolling river |
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Because I was a tarry sailor |
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Away, we're bound away |
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Cross the wide Missouri |
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At last there came a Yankee skipper |
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Way hey you rolling river |
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He winked his eye and tipped his flipper |
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Away, we're bound away |
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Cross the wide Missouri |
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He sold the chief that firewater |
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Way hey you rolling river |
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And cross the river he stole his daughter |
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Away, we're bound away |
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Cross the wide Missouri |
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Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter, |
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Way hey you rolling river |
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I'll take her cross yon rolling water |
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Away, we're bound away |
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Cross the wide Missouri |