| I was once some mother’s darlin'
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| Some daddy’s little girl
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| More precious than the ruby
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| More cherished than the pearl
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| My heart was full of mercy
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| And my forehead full of curl
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| Now I am nothing and am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| They herded me like cattle
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| Cut me down like corn
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| Took me from my babies
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| Before they could be born
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| You can blame it on the famine
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| You can blame it on the war
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| You can blame it on the devil
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| It don’t matter anymore
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I was tortured in the desert
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| I was raped out on the plain
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| I was murdered by the highway
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| And my cries went up in vain
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| My blood is on the mountain
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| My blood is on the sand
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| My blood runs in the river
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| That now washes through their hands
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| Can I get no witness?
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| This unholy tale to tell
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| Was God the only one there watching
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| And weeping as l fell?
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| O you among the living
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| Will you remember me at all?
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| Will you write my name out
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| With a single finger scrawl
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| Across a broken window
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| In some long forgotten wall
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| That goes stretching out forever
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| Where the tears of heaven fall?
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world
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| I am lost unto this world |