A. P. Carter

East Virginia Blues

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I was born in East Virginia
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North Carolina I did go
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There I met the fairest maiden
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and my age I did not know.  *)

Her hair it was the darkest colour 
Cheeks they were a-ruby red
On her breast she wore a white lily
Where I longed to lay my head

I'd rather be in some dark hollow
where the sun don't ever shine
than to see you love another
and to know you'll never be mine.

I don't want your green back dollar
I don't want your diamond ring
All I want is your love, darling
Won't you take me back again?
Won't you take me back again?

Little Moses

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Away by the river so clear,
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The ladies were winding their way,
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And Pharaoh's little daughter stepped down in the water
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To bathe in the cool of the day.
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Before it was dark she opened the ark
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And found the sweet infant was there.


And away by the waters so blue,
The infant was lonely and sad.
She took him in pity and thought him so pretty
And it made little Moses so glad.
She called him her own, her beautiful son
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