There is a spring

Not far from here

The water runs

Both sweet and clear

Both sweet and clear

And cold

Could crack your bones

With veins of gold

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I stood a-wagging

At the tap

Just a-waiting

On the lagging, rising sap

I held the cold

Tin ladle to my lip

At the shrine of the thousand arms

I lowered my eyes to sip

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What a beautiful day

To catch my drift

Or be caught up

In it

You want your love, love?

Come and get your love

I only took it back

Because I thought you didn't

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How my ears did ring

At the municipal pound

From that old hangdog

To which I was bound

Curled 'round the bottom rung

Doesn't anybody want you?

Well, come on, darlin'

I could use someone like you around

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I am not like you

I ain't from this place

And I do reserve the right

To repeat all my same mistakes

And, in the night, like you

I certainly bite and chew

What I can find

And never seem to lose the taste

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What a horrible face

I feel me make

For

Pete's sake!

What you have told me

I cannot erase

Though I keep on saying

And I do believe it is not too late

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All day you're hassling me with trifles

Black nose of the dog

As cold as a rifle

Indicating, with a nudge

God, no god, god, no god

Sweet, appraising eye of the dog

Blink once if god

Twice if no god

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My mama may be

Ashamed of me

With all of my

Finery

Carrying on, whooping it up

'Til the early morn

Lost and lorn

Among the madding revelry

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Sure, I can pass

Honey, I can pass

Particularly when I start

To tip my glass

I'll be a sport and have a go

At that old song, singing unabashed

About "them city girls with their ribbon bows

and their fancy sash"

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