Dress Of Laces

                                                                  She

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  has a dress  of  la- ces,     It's worn in many    places,      The

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  shoulder hangs u-pon her by  a    thread                     And she

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  has a  need for  sharin'   With some-one warm and  carin'       And

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  no  one sees a   heart that's un- der- fed

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           Young   girl         in  love,

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           Young   girl         in  tears,                       She

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  hasn't  seen the  man she loves in   years                 And her

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  mother  is a    waitress,   At the harbor bar,Good  Graces Where the

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  seamen  come  a- fishin' with their lines.               And it was

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  one of them  who caught her  And  left her with a  daughter    Who

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  lives with hate and loving him in mind.

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           Young   girl         in  love,

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           Young   girl         in  tears,                       She

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  hasn't  seen the  man she loves in   years                 So the

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  young girl goes to the water, and she calls out for her father, But

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  she ain't seen the old man in some time.                   Yes, and

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  he was always    boastin'  Just a-drinkin' and   a-toastin' And one

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  day he left his  family   far  be-hind.

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           Young   girl         in  love,

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           Young   girl         in  tears,                       She

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  hasn't  seen the  man she loves in   years                 So her

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  mother comes home a-drinkin' With some sailor who's a-thinking, Out

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  loud that he might stay with them a while.                   So she

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  loads her mother's pistol, And she shoots him as he whistles,    A

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  song about    a  sailor's life in style

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           Young   girl         in  love,

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           Young   girl         in  tears,                       She

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  killed the only  man she's loved in   years                   And

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  with him dies her hopes,her dreams, her fears.                  She

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  has a dress  of  la- ces,     It's worn in many    places,      the

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  shoulder hangs u-pon her by  a    thread                     And she

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  has a  need for  sharin'   with some-one warm and  carin'       And

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  no  one sees a   heart that's un- der- fed

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  no  one sees a   heart that's un- der- fed