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Maria Sugarcane
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Brian Wright
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In the south end of the county
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Near the highway and the trains
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There's a river long since dried up
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But a river just the same
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When I was just a boy
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I would the lie there on its banks
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With my brother and the summer
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And Maria Sugarcane
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And my brother was born shaky
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And he wore our father's rage
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And he stumbled through the autumn
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Underneath the winter's weight
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And he rode a motorcycle
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That he'd drive down to the banks
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Of the river in the summer
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With Maria Sugarcane
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And how they loved each other
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And that love was wild as hope
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And none would come between them
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But my father's wandering ghost
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And I had seen him beat her
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Time and time before
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But as I loved my brother
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I loved Maria so much more
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Well, I loved her young and pretty
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And I loved her wild and strong
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And I'd never loved another
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I'd loved her for so long
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And never would I hurt her
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Never see her meet with harm
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When I told her how I'd found him
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She fell into my arms
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Well, I told her how I'd found him
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Down there by the river banks
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That the angels were around him
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But that I was just too late
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And they carried him off to heaven
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With my father's sins and all
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But I did not hear the shot
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And I did not see him fall
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And Maria loved my brother
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With her purest, bluest eyes
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And he carried it in paper
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And it never left his side
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And I married her two summers past
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The year my brother died
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And though sometimes I hear her
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I've never seen her cry
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And I know Maria loves me
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But it just ain't the same
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As the way she loved my brother
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In those summers on the banks
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Of the river long since dried up
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Maria Sugarcane
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In the south end of the county
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Near the highway and the trains
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In the south end of the county
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Near the highway and the trains
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There's a river long since dried up
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But a river just the same
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And that's where I found my brother
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And Maria's one true love
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I knew that I would kill him
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And Maria, she would come
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In the corner of the graveyard
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Near the spot my brother lays
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Far past the noble families
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Two more plots are saved
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When I and fair Maria
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Have seen our final days
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May they bury her between us
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Maria Sugarcane
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