| Lily of the valley
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| Lily of the valley
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| Lily of the valley
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| They called her 'Lily of the valley'
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| And she lived beside the river
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| The youngest of her sisters
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| And the prettiest of them all
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| She was courted by the men in town
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| She could have married anyone
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| The one she made her husband
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| Was the handsomest of all
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| They were married in a chapel
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| Lily bore him seven children
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| And every night he put her down
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| And made her feel ashamed
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| He took the face she used to wear
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| And put a look of sorrow there
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| The more he made her suffer
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| The more she felt to blame
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| No more tears Lily, don’t cry anymore
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| Tears of yours won’t fall another time
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| Don’t cry Lily we know how you’ve tried
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| Fighting for your life was not a crime
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| One night Lily turned to him
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| Before he raised his hand to her
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| One more time she said
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| And not again
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| He laughed and threw another punch
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| The blow knocked Lily to the floor
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| Somehow she grabbed the kitchen knife
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| And stabbed her husband dead
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| The jury they decided
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| It was murder in the first degree
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| They said she had provoked him
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| With her wild and wicked talk
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| They hanged her by the river
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| Where so many times she wandered
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| And left her children motherless
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| In sorrow and in shock
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| No more tears Lily, don’t cry anymore
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| Tears of yours won’t fall another time
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| Don’t cry Lily we know how you’ve tried
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| Fighting for your life was not a crime
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| A soldier in a uniform
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| Is meant to kill the enemy
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| But Lilly in her own defense
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| Was framed to take the fall
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| Her children watched their father beat
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| Their mother all too often
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| The battlefields of families
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| Are the saddest of them all
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| The willow weeps for Lily
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| As its branches touch the water
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| The wind is crying, «Lily»
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| As it sighs along the shore
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| The river’s singing «Lily
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| We all know that you are innocent»
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| You were promised marriage
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| But you had to fight a war
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| No more tears Lily, don’t cry anymore
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| Tears of yours won’t fall another time
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| Don’t cry Lily we know how you’ve tried
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| Fighting for your life was not a crime
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| Lily of the valley
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| Lily of the valley
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| Lily of the valley |