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    'Twas in the year of '92, in the merry month of June,

    I left my mother and a home so dear
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    for the girl I loved on the Greenbriar shore.

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    My mother dear, she came to me and said "Oh son, don't go,"

    "Don't leave your mother and a home so dear
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    to trust a girl on the Greenbriar shore. "

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    But I was young and reckless, too, and I craved a reckless life,

    I left my mother with a broken heart,
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    and I choosed that girl to be my wife.

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    Her hair was dark and curly, too and her loving eyes were blue,

    her cheeks were like the red red rose,
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    the girl I loved on the Greenbriar shore.

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    The years rolled on and the months rolled by, she left me all alone,

    now I remember what mother said :
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    Never trust a girl on the Greenbriar shore.