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It was many and many a year ago,
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In a kingdom by the sea,
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That a maiden there lived whom you may know
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By the name of Annabel Lee;
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And this maiden she lived with no other thought
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Than to love and be loved by me.
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I was a child and she was a child,
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In this kingdom by the sea;
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But we loved with a love that was more than love-
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I and my Annabel Lee;
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With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
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Coveted her and me.
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And this was the reason that, long ago,
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In this kingdom by the sea,
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A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
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My beautiful Annabel Lee;
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So that her highborn kinsmen came
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And bore her away from me,
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To shut her up in a sepulcher
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In this kingdom by the sea.
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The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
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Went envying her and me-
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Yes!- and that was the reason, as all men know
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In this kingdom by the sea
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That the wind came out of a cloud by night,
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Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
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But our love it was stronger by far than the love
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Of those who were older than we-
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Of many far wiser than we-
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And neither the angels in heaven above,
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Nor the demons down under the sea,
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Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
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of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
[Octave Up]
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
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Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
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And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
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Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
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And so all the night tide I lie down by the side
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Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride
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In the sepulcher there by the sea,
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In her tomb by the sounding sea.
[Octave Down]
[Instrumental]
Bm F# A G F# (repeats until end)