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I asked my love to take a walk,
Just to walk a little way.
As we walked, all way we talked
All about our wedding day.
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Always say that you'll be mine
In our home, we'll happy be
Down beside, where the waters flow
On the banks of the Ohio.
I held a knife close to her breast,
As into my arms she pressed.
She cried: Oh, Willie, don't murder me.
I'm not prepared for eternity
I took her by her lily white hand
And dragged her down that bank of sand;
There I throwed her in the ground
I watched her as she floated down.
Was walking home between twelve and one
A thinking of what I have done.
I'd killed the girl I loved you see
Because she would not marry me.
The very next morn' about half past four
The sheriff's men, knock at my door
Say now young man come down and go
Down to the banks of the Ohio.