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There is a tree, flowers in spring.
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White cherry buds, twenty-two rings.
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I helped her grow, but have never seen
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Carolina winter or Aberdeen.
D#
From the Missisippi floodgates my body churned.
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Up the river delta my mother yearned
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to taste the sweetness of her pain
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fallin' down in Carolina rain.
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And if I stay I'll stay today.
Cm D#
My body has followed in her wake.
G# D#
If I'm to go, I'll go away
A# Cm
to Aberdeen and there I'll wait.
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D#
She stayed by the sea hardened town.
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Smell of fish watered down,
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Taste of liquor on her mouth,
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and her heart it wandered down to the south.
G# D#
And if I stay I'll stay today.
Cm D#
My body has followed in her wake.
G# D#
If I'm to go, I'll go away
A# Cm
to Aberdeen and there I'll wait.
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D#
Her body is now hard from the years.
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She's still as strong, still as fierce.
Cm D#
I've taken all she had to give
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and given back the will to live.
G# D#
And if I stay I'll stay today.
Cm D#
My body has followed in her wake.
G# D#
If I'm to go, I'll go away
A# Cm
to Aberdeen and there I'll wait.
A# Cm
To Aberdeen and there I'll wait
A# Cm
To Aberdeen and there I'll wait
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