[Intro]
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[Verse]
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A lady runs across the Old Mill Moor
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a dreadful song was singing
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By the darkness of that now new moon
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to her lover's guise was tightly clinging
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Oh go run, go run your troubles down
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go run down to the water
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by the city fair and the ocean fierce
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a lady does not often falter
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[Verse]
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There runs she now by the ‘Sconset rose
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there runs she now a'bleeding
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And a trail is kept by the way she moves
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to her lover's touch is dire needing
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Although starched your apron may now be
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it'll lose its shape in the water
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but go swimmeth thee to the anchor most near
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a lady does not often falter
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[Verse]
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Oh the winds they blow and the tide she swells
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brings life into the beaches
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Oh that seam between the Earth and Tide
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from land that sea is not quite as wide
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Oh the winds they blow and the tide she swells
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breathes life into the tall pines
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Without her breath lies the world so still
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but with, that constant shoreline
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[Verse]
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A lady runs across the Old Mill Moor
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and Heaven's bells were tolling
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By the sadness of that silent tune
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and the sea just kept on gently rolling
[Outro]
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