[Intro]
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C G7
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[Verse 1]
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My love is dead and buried yonder
C G7
Beneath the weeping willow tree
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What wrecks my life and makes me wonder
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Is because she died for me
[Chorus]
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Then lay me down in death beside her
C G7
For she's all this life to me
C F
That I may join and e'er caress her
C G C
In a land beyond the sea
[Instrumental]
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C G7
C F
C G7 C
[Verse 2]
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Yes, she died before I told her
C G7
That I loved her true and kind
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And that I did not mean to fool her
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But she'd left me to repine
[Chorus]
C F
Then lay me down in death beside her
C G7
For she's all this life to me
C F
That I may join and e'er caress her
C G7 C
In a land beyond the sea
[Instrumental]
C F
C G7
C F
C G7 C
[Verse 3]
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God, shall I ever get forgiveness
C G7
For the deeds that I have done
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And meet up yonder her sweet charming
C G7 C
For I know she bids me come
[Chorus]
C F
Then lay me down in death beside her
C G7
For she's all this life to me
C F
That I may join and e'er caress her
C G7 C
In a land beyond the sea