Songbook/Banks of the Ohio

= Banks of the Ohio =


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 * Verse 1
 * I asked mylove to take awalk


 * Just towalk a littleway


 * As we walked along wetalked


 * All aboutourweddingday


 * Chorus:
 * And onlysay that you'll bemine


 * And ourhome will happybe


 * Down beside where the watersflow


 * Down on thebanks of theOhio


 * Verse 2
 * I took herby her lily whitehand


 * Led herdown where the watersstand


 * There I pushed her in todrown


 * And watchedas shefloateddown


 * Verse 3
 * I startedhome tween twelve andone


 * I cried, "MyGod, what have Idone."


 * I murdered the only woman Iloved


 * Because shewould notmarryme.


 * Verse 4
 * The very nextmorning about half-pastfour


 * the sheriff came knocking on mydoor


 * He said, "Young man, come with me andgo


 * Down to thebanks of theOhio."

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