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Foretold me I'll remain, my fortune is high |
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I've been over courted, my rakish young light |
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And I've kept my love's company by night and by day |
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But now that he's listed and gone far away |
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For if I were a BLACKBIRD, I'd whistle, I'd sing |
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And I'd follow the ship my true love sailed in |
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High upon this land, must I dabble my name |
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Long I shall I gaze on these lily white banks |
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For my laws and the soldiers, many's name told unfair |
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There's none in the army come equal to it |
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With his red rosy cheeks and his colly black eyes |
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His flattering tongue goes my heart to a snack |
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For some people's talking that I'm out of my mind |
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Some people said that I'm not with the ??? |
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And be talking and say what they will |
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When this breath in my body, I done my last will |
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For if I were a BLACKBIRD, I'd whistle, I'd sing |
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And I'd follow the ship my true love sailed in |
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High upon this land, must I dabble my name |
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Long I shall I gaze on these lily white banks |
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For if I were a merchant and could handle my band |
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I'd write in a letter to him I would send |
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Your tendency they're sailing and found wind to blow |
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It's a deal to my true love wherever he goes |
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For if I were a BLACKBIRD, I'd whistle, I'd sing |
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And I'd follow the ship my true love sailed in |
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High upon this land, must I dabble my name |
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Long I shall I gaze on these lily white banks |
