Key: D
Introduction:
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On past the Riley Fruit Farm in the country
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and across the Gundy Hills to Jopin(?) Holler
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An old man lived alone like a prisoner serving
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I'd never met a man like Albert Ervin
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Albert never held a woman or a child
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you could see that loneliness had drove him wild
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He said I ain't seen a soul in three long years
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and down his lonely face came the tears
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His house was filled with logs and cardboard boxes
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The boxes sealed the cracks in the wintertime
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The floor in Albert's home was just the earth worn down
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Where Albert Ervin's feet had walked around
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Everything in Albert's house was made by hand
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a picture carved in wood sat on a stand
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Such beauty in a face I'd never seen
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carved just below the picture the name Kathleen
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Albert held the picture close up to his face
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said my Kathleen adds beauty to this place
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I asked him who she was then came the tears
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He said she's not real
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she's just someone I've dreamed of all these years
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His house was filled with logs and cardboard boxes
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The boxes sealed the cracks in the wintertime
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The floor in Albert's home was just the earth worn down
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Where Albert's lonely feet had walked around
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Where Albert Ervin's feet had walked around