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Wasting away on the mighty Mississippi
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Hoping god forgives me for my sins
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Well starlight stained steamboats,
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and a rich man clears his throat
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Took a sip of whiskey from his glass
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The piano plays softly and his daughter screamed, "get off me"
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His wife she died a few years back
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He drinks and drinks for days
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but the memories they stay
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And the tears they flow like alcohol
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Well his daughter she loves me,
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said she's always thinkin of me
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That's why I stand here on this boat today
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I watched a rich man clear his throat, But what that rich man doesn't know
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is that I'll take his life away
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Please forgive me god, For the things I've done
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I could hide my problems,
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I could run
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But it was I who held the gun, and I am the setting sun
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And I promise I will never, ever run
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I said, "take me down where the lovers died."
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Where those steamboats don't go,
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and that Mississippi flows all night
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Wastin' away where the lovers died
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Wastin away on the mighty Mississippi
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Hoping god forgives me for my sins
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Well It was I who held the gun
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and I am the setting sun
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And I promise I will never, ever run