Tonalidad: B major
Verse 1
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She was born in
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an old Manessin alley.
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I say her ma and her pa, called her Sam.
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She grew up to be the pride of the valley.
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A typical Monongahela gal.
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One day, she walked by the river
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An d saw the Jason steaming by
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Her heart gave a leap and a quiver
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As she caught the handsome
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pilot's roving eye
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His name, you must know,
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was Moat Stanley
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An d he wore a fancy sportin' coat
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He was tall, dark, handsome and manly
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The slickest pilot ever steered a boat
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And roll on, roll on, young healer,
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roll on to the Ohio,
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roll on past Tallaclipi on
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to the Mississippi,
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clear to the Gulf of Mexico.
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And now Mote blew a strain on his whistle
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An d the Jason churned
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water at her stern
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And Sal, steppin' light as a thistle
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Reached up and took Mote
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Stanley's arm in
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It was love, sweet love,
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by the river,
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Love, careless love, by the shore,
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But I'm sure the good Lord
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will forgive her,
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Cause she never knew
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what love was like before.
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Guitar solo. . . .
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Oh, he promised that he
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always would love her
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As they locked through
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the old Ensworth dam
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But that night of the bard, he did shove her
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And then Moat Stanley took it on the lam
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But no one, no no one could say
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Sal was sickly
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But she did not even take time out to bawl
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She just hiked and tailed
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it out far so quickly
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She was laying down a fast
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Australian crawl
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Yeah, she hopped a fast
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freight to Rochester
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And saw a moat steaming close to shore
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From a yard bull who tried to molest her
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She up and swiped his number 44
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Slowly raising her shooting iron
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She drilled six bullets into Moat
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And when she laid down
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She'd sure messed up that
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fancy sportin' coat
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Roll on, roll on, Nungahilla
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Where carp and catfish left long ago,
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Oh, once you were pure,
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But now you're just a sewer,
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Messing up the Gulf of Mexico.
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