[Intro]
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[Verse]
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False hearts have been my downfall
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Pretty women have been my craze
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I'm sure my false hearted lover
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Will drive me to my lonesome grave
They'll bite the hand that feeds them
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Spend all the money you can save
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From your heart strings weave silk garters
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Build a dog house on your grave
[Chorus]
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When my earthly stay is over
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Sink my dead body in the sea
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Just tell my false hearted lover
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That the whales will watch over me
Ragged clothes dropping from my body
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The wolf howls around my door
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The man who won my darling girl
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Will feel the bite of my forty four
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Corn whiskey has wrecked my body
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A false hearted lover is a bearing on my mind
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I've roamed the whole world over
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Pleasure on earth I cannot find
[Chorus]
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When my earthly stay is over
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Sink my dead body in the sea
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Just tell my false hearted lover
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That the whales will watch over me
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If I meet my darling girl again
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I'll tell her all about my troubles
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Give her these false hearted lover's blues
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And leave her stranded in the shallows
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All men take this timely warning
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It is both for young and old
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Don't try to buy a woman's love
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With the last dollar of your gold
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Take warning you fair young ladies
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If your love and honor you have sold
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The men will have no use for you
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When your dark hair turns to gold
[Chorus]
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When my earthly stay is over
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Sink my dead body in the sea
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Just tell my false hearted lover
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That the whales will watch over me