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I thought I knew what I was doing
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I was wrong
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Mistakes I've made and lived to tell
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I tell them in a song
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I knew a river wide and deep
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Her banks were very tall
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At one end was a mountain stream
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The other was a waterfall, boys
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The other was a waterfall
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I asked the old man by the river
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He did not recall
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The last attempt to ride a barrel
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Over the waterfall
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The ferryboatman, he did tell me
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That the chance was very small
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None survived who went alive
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Over the waterfall, boys
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Over the waterfall
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So I built myself an oaken barrel
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And inside I did crawl
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I broke the record but I broke my back
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Going over the waterfall
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And it's been my luck to live to tell
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The only tale I can
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It don't hurt you when you fall
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Only when you land, boys
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Only when you land
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Over The Waterfall
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| Michelle Shocked |
