Suzy Bogguss Banks of the Ohio lyrics

I asked my love to take a walk
to take a walk just a little ways
and as we walked then we would talk
all about our wedding day

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Only say that you'll be mine
in no other arms entwine
down beside where the waters flow
down by the banks of the Ohio

I asked her will she marry me
and my wife forever be.
She only turned her head away
and had no other words to say

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I held my knife against her breast

and told her she was going to rest.
She cried, "Oh Willy! Don't murder me!
I'm not prepared for eternity."

I took her by her lily white hand
and led her down the bank of sand
and there I threw her in to drown
and watched her as she floated down.

And going home between 12 and 1
I cried, "Dear Lord, what have I done?
I've killed the only girl I love
because she would not marry me."

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