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Waring Cuney, "Suicide" (1928)

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Last time they saw her
She was down by the river
Lawdy, Lawd,
Please forgive her.

Gamblers got her man
And beat him dead.
Gamblers broke a chair
Across his head.

Lawdy, Lawd,
Please forgive her,
She's gone to sleep
Beneaf the river.


Published in Carolina Magazine, May 1928

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