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(Dolly Parton) Pretty as
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an angel from the day
Skin as fair as Lily's hair,
as golden as the corn
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They knew that she was special from
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the moment she first cried
She was a mountain angel certified
She was her momma's baby,
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she was her daddy's pride
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Good at home, at church and school,
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at everything she tried
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Everybody's darlin' led a charmed
and peaceful life
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The perfect mountain
angel 'til he arrived
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And ohh, she fell so deeply
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Ooh, she couldn't stop
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She gave herself to him,
milled it completely
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He lifted her so high he
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let her drop
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She
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gave up everything for him
that mattered in her life
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All the others that had loved her and she
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vowed to be his wife
She dreamed of bearing children
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in an ivy- covered house
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sunshine turned to clouds
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The wicked handsome stranger left the
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way he came
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Broke her heart and broke her mind
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same
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They say he was the devil
That had come to steal her soul
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She never loved another it was told
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They say she had a baby
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Some say that it had died
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They it's just as well
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As it had been the devil's child
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They say good conquers evil
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But here, evil won the prize
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So the mountain angel took to the wild
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And ooh, she couldn't take it Years passed and
she had
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long since lost her mind
She waited for him as her beauty faded
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Her parents died from grief
before their time
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She tried to gather pieces of her life,
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they wouldn't fit
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Beside the tiny grave deep in
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the woods is where she'd sit
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Talking to the child, herself, to him,
Possessed they say by
High a'top the mountain,
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for years they say she's seen
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Looking down upon the town
where she had once been queen
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She'd sneak around the playground,
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watch the little children play
They'd see the crazy lady
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They say she roamed these hills for years,
wearing not a stitch
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The lovely mountain angel now
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thought to be a witch
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She made those wailing mournful sounds
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That you could hear for miles
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Long after she laid down upon
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her baby's grave and died
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And ooh,
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She's waiting for the ones
that she adored
Through spring and summer,
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fall when snow is fallin'
Her spirit roams these hills forever more
voices ever more
Oohh, oooo
Oohh, oooo
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