Fine Clothes to the Jew/Suicide

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SUICIDE
Ma sweet good man hasPacked his trunk and left.Ma sweet good man hasPacked his trunk and left.Nobody to love me:I'm gonna kill ma self.
I'm gonna buy me a knife withA blade ten inches long.Gonna buy a knife withA blade ten inches long.Shall I carve ma self orThat man that done me wrong?
'Lieve I'll jump in de riverEighty-nine feet deep.'Lieve I'll jump in de riverEighty-nine feet deep.Cause de river's quietAn' a po', po' gal can sleep.
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