Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Lately last night, I was asked to a wedding
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The wedding of a fair maid who proved to be unkind
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For that day as she thought of her intended young lover
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Thoughts of her old one had run through her mind
[Verse 2]
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Supper being over and all things were ended
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Every young man was to sing a fine song
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Until it came to the turn of her own foreign lover
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And the song that he sang, to the bride did belong
[Verse 3]
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"How can you sit at another man's table?
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How can you drink of another man's wine?
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How can you lie in the arms of another?
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Many's the night, love, that you lay in mine"
[Verse 4]
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"Many's the one has been seven years parted
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Seven years parted and he did return again
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But I have only been two years away, love
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Two years away, love, and did return again"
[Verse 5]
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The bride, she was seated at the head of the table
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Very well she knew to whom the song did belong
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Then her heart, it grew faint, she could stand it no longer
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Down at the feet of the bridegroom she fell
[Verse 6]
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Sobbing and sighing she rose from the table
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Sobbing and sighing she went to her bed
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Early next morning the bridegroom awakened
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He turned to embrace her and found she was dead
[Verse 7]
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Saying, "Annie, dear Annie, I knew you never loved me
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My love and your love could never agree
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For I knew all along that your poor heart was breaking
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All for the sake of a foreign young man"
[Verse 8]
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So now I must wear a frock of deep mourning
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A frock of deep mourning, one, two and three
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I must wear to her wake my own wedding garment
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Ne'er again shall I go between the bark and the tree