Crooked Road And The Briar Acordes

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Down the crooked road a ways 
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A child's shadow hiding in the Briar 

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Tending to a twisted heart 
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that's bent and broken 
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wounded and abandoned 
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left amongst the rotted root to rot 

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Moon, crimson moon 
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Rose Marie's walking down the crooked road a ways 

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All aglow, her fair white skin 
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Portrait of beauty, angel to many 
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Hears the hush crying from the briar 
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Reaches in her hand to see what's the matter 
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and is dragged through the darkness 
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beneath the lonely cypress 
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The town's beloved daughter 
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carried to her death in the turbid waters 
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and set afloat downstream 

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Whole town erupts, bursts into flame 
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Parties go a-searching down the crooked road a ways 
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Find old Rufus there drunk and asleep 
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Fishing by the water must have killed our beloved daughter 
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Can't hold back these waves of anger 
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Tie a rope around his neck 
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See if he still hollers 
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Another innocent soul hangs over the briar 

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