| They found her body in the water
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| Floating face down in the river
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| The one who found her called the doctor
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| Or so they say
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| Not a scratch, she wasn’t bleeding
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| Sixteen years old, died a virgin
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| Unlucky lover, she did herself in
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| Or so they say
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| Rescue Annie from the river
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| With every kiss she is delivered
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| From the depths and we forgive her
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| For falling in
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| They say the doctor could have saved her
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| If he’d come a little sooner
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| It broke his heart to know he’d lost her
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| To the world
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| And though he couldn’t rescue Annie
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| He resolved to tell her story
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| He used her face to make a body
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| To teach the world
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| Rescue Annie from the river
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| With every kiss she is delivered
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| From the depths and we forgive her
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| For falling in
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| In darkened storage rooms of hospitals
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| Across the world she waits
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| For the missing kiss that damned her to her fate
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| Annie sinks down to the bottom
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| The one who spurned her is forgotten
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| While she is cherished by a million pairs of lips
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| Rescue Annie from the river
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| Help her breathe, try to forgive her
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| Press her chest, always remember
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| That in her heart we find our harbor
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| And every year, come early summer
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| He lingers down there by the river
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| Rescue Annie from the river
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| In life, her lonely lips were never
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| Loved; |
| in death, caressed forever
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| We all fell in |