Tonart: B major
Verse 1
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Weep not for my life, said the prisoner,
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as she stood in the jail cell alone.
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For tonight when the black
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my troubles will finally have flown.
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It's a long line of sorrow I'm leaving,
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It's a dark path I walked in this world,
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Since I left a sweet one to love me,
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For the charms of a South Richmond girl.
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As a young man of twenty I wondered,
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What night to the south end of town,
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In the pale amber glow she was standing
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Like a diamond that heaven dropped down
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In her face was a promise unspoken
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In her arms all my strength overcome
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In the morning I married that stranger
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Never knowing the wrong I had
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done
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Oh, the north wind blew
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And the cold streets of Richmond lay bare
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But the child she bore me that winter
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And I swore as I pressed him against me
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No storm could the heavens unfurl
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And would air cloud the life of my baby
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Or his mother, my South Richmond girl
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So from each early dawn I did labor
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For the little my two hands could earn
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But later each night I'd return
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When the sawmill one Friday closed early
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I ran home and threw the door wide
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Just to see my baby crying
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And a man lying there with my bride
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Now the law's iron -bound in Virginia,
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But the wheels of its justice roll slow.
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Twenty years have I lain in this prison,
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Now to my reward I must go.
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Then the prisoner's grey head
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And the hand that had killed with no fear,
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Reached out through the steel
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There to rest on his shoulder so dear.
And the touch he but dimly
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Tears filled the younger man's eyes.
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For his dream of the past was illusions,
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And his memories of home only lies.
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And he knew from this
That he'd walk all alone
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For the mother he loved was no angel
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But a false artist
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South Richmond girl
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