8.

Midnight On The Stormy Deep

Bill Monroe

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T'was midnight on the stormy deep
My solitary watch I'd keep
And think of her I'd left behind
And ask if she'd be true and kind

I never shall forget the day
That I was forced to go away
In silence there my head she'd rest
And pressed me to her loving breast
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Oh Willie don't go back to sea
There's other girls as good as me
But none can love you true as I
Pray don't go where the bullets fly

The deep deep sea may us divide
And I may be some other's bride
But still my thoughts will some times stray
To be in there so far away
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I never have proved false to Thee
The love I gave was true and kind
But you have proved untrue to me
I can no longer call Thee mine

Then fare-Thee-well I'd rather make
My home upon some icy lake
Where the southern sun refused to shine
Then to trust a love so false as Thine

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