Oh, when I was a young boy
And drove my mother wild,
I met a maiden in the woods
And she said
"Child, look deep into my green eyes
And at my autumn hair,
When you're a man you'll never see
A girl quite as fair".
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Remember me
Remember me
Remember me
For the rest of your life.
Her eyes were green as gra**y pools
Looking right at me,
And her hair was red and grown with leaves
Just like an autumn tree
She moved her tiny hands
And she made a little turn.
She swayed in the wind
Just like a graceful fern.
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I swore as she vanished
That when I was full grown,
I'd have a girl just like her
To be my very own.
And now I am a man
And I'd marry if I could
But I can't lose the mem'ry
Of The Girl In The Wood.
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I've wished a hundred times
That she'd never looked at me.
With the first wild beauty
That only youth can see,
For a man cannot find it
When he's looking for a wife,
And he'll end up in bachelorhood
The rest of his life.
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