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The Decemberists-the rake's song |
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I had entered into a marriage |
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In the summer of my twenty-first year |
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And the bells rang for our wedding |
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Only now do I remember it clear |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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No more a rake and no more a bachelor |
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I was wedded and it whetted my thirst |
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Until her womb start spilling out babies |
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Only then did I reckon my curse |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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First came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers |
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Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn |
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Ugly Myfanwy died on delivery |
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Mercifully taking her mother along |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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What can one do when one is widower |
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Shamefully saddled with three little pests |
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All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life |
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So my burden I began to divest |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove |
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Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath |
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Isaiah fought but was easily bested |
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Burned his body for incurring my wrath |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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And that's how I came your humble narrator |
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To be living so easy and free |
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Expect you think that I should be haunted |
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But it never really bothers me |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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Alright, alright, alright |
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