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Hannibal, MO
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I had a true love from Hannibal
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Where the Mississippi turns flat and wide
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We'd lay out on the sandbars
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And fall asleep to the barges and the fireflies
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And I killed my true love from Hannibal
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She was nineteen and I was twenty-two
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Summer was ending and she was leaving soon
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To study writing on the east coast
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And I worked in my father's shop
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Fixing air conditioners and heating pumps
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Going to college never made much sense to me
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I wanted to keep my true love close to me
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The summers are hot in Hannibal
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The summers there are unbearable
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So we'd steal down to the water's edge
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And cool off in the river's ebb
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One night we decided what we would do
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Swim to the middle "˜til our strength gave out
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Where the current was strong and deep
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Together we'd be pulled down to sleep
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So we swam "˜til our bodies were weak
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I watched my true love get washed out to sea
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I felt a terrible grip from beneath
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The river took her but it didn't take me
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In St. Louis there's a prison cell
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It'll be twelve more years "˜til I get out
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When I do her father says he'll shoot me down
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If I don't do it myself
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Most days I just try and sleep
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I dream of Hannibal when it was in between
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It's not quite day and it's not yet night
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We fall asleep to the barges and the fireflies
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