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Early one morning at the St. James Hospital
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Early one morning in the month of May
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I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
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Wrapped in white linen and as cold as the clay
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Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story
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Come sit down beside me and hear my sad song
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For my poor head is aching and my sad heart is breaking
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I?m a poor cowboy and I know I?ve done wrong
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Send for the preacher to come and pray o?er my body
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Send for the doctor to come and heal up my wound
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For my poor head is aching and my sad heart is breaking
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I?m a poor cowboy and Hell is my doom
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Get me six pretty maidens for to carry my coffin
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Six pretty maidens for to sing me a song
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And tell them to bring some of them sweet-smelling lilies
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To throw o?er my body as they carry me along
Outro (fade to end)
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