My mother came to hazard when I was just seven
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Even then the folks in town said with predjudiced eyes
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That boy's not right
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Three years ago when I came to know mary
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First time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies
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And saw the man inside
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We used to walk down by the river
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She loved to watch the sun go down
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We used to walk along the river
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And dream our way out of this town
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No one understood what I felt for mary
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No one cared until the night she went out walking alone
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And never came home
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Man with a badge came knocking next morning
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Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly
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Pointed right at me
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I swear I left her by the river
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I swear I left her safe and sound
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I need to make it to the river
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And leave this old nebraska town
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I think about my life gone by
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And how it's done me wrong
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There's no escape for me this time
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All of my rescues are gone, long gone
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I swear I left her by the river
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I swear I left her safe and sound
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I need to make it to the river
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And leave this old nebraska town
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