Little Susie

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Somebody killed Little Susie
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The girl with the tune
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Who sings in the daytime at noon
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She was there screaming
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Beating her voice in her doom
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But nobody came to her soon

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A fall down the stairs
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Her dress torn, oh, the blood in her hair
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A mystery so sullen in air
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She lies there so tenderly
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Fashioned so slenderly
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Lift her with care
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Oh, the blood in her hair

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Everyone came to see
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The girl that now is dead
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So blind stare the eyes in her head...
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And suddenly a voice from the crowd said
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This girl lived in vain
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Her face bear such agony, such strain...

[Chorus]
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But only the man from next door
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Knew Little Susie and how he cried
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As he reached down to close Susie's eyes...
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She lie there so tenderly
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Fashioned so slenderly
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Lift her with care
         E
Oh the blood in her hair...

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It was all for God's sake
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For her singing the tune
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For someone to feel her despair
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To be damned to know hoping is dead, and you're doomed
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Then to scream out and nobody's there


She knew no one cared

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Father left home, poor mother died
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Leaving Susie alone
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Grandfather's soul too had flown
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No one to care
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Just to love her how much can one bear
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Rejecting the needs in her prayers

[Chorus]
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Neglection can kill
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Like a knife in your soul oh it will
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Little Susie fought so hard to live
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She lie there so tenderly
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Fashioned so slenderly
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Lift her with care
    E
So young and so fair