VERSE
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We came in this world together
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Legs wrapped round each other
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My cheek against my sister's
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We were born like tangled vines
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And we lived along the river
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Where the black clouds never lingered
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And the sunlight spread like honey
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Through my sister's tiny hand
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But while picking sour apples
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In the wild waving grasses
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Sister stumbled in the briar
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And was bitten by a snake
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Every creature casts a shadow
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Under the sun's golden fingers
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And as the sun slips past the waving grass
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Some shadows are dragged along
VIOLIN SOLO
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VERSE
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So alone I took to drinking
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Bottles of cheap whiskey
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And I staggered through the backwoods
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Killing snakes with a sharpened stick
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Oh but still I heard her laughing
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In the wild waving grasses
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Still her tiny hands were splashing
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At the river's sparkling shore
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So I took my rusty gas can
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And an old iron shovel
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And I set the woods to blaze
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And choked the river up with stones
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Every creature casts a shadow
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Under the sun's golden fingers
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And as the sun slips past the waving grass
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Some shadows are dragged along