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I peeked in to say goodnight and I heard my child in prayer. |
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"Please bring me some scarlet ribbons, scarlet ribbons for my hair." |
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All the shops were closed and shuttered, all the streets were dark and bare. |
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In our town no scarlet ribbons, scarlet ribbons for her hair. |
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Through the night, my heart was achin', just before the dawn was breaking. |
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I looked in and on her bed in gay profusion lying there, scarlet ribbons, lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons for her hair. |
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If I live to be a hundred, I will never know from where came those ribbons, lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons for her hair. |