Abilene Lyrics

Play the above 3 times for the Intro before walking up to C on the fifth string like: 0-2-3
2-0-2 on 4th as in Intro
I fell in love with a girl of nineteen
Walk up to on 5th
A black-haired girl I called Abilene
Young girl, where's your husband?
Sadly, she replied, I do not have one
Then it's you I'll marry with your parents' permission
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No fine sir, they will not let me marry
For I am a young girl
And you are a man without money
Then I'll come by your window
Tonight when they both will be sleeping
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Outside your window in a carriage I will be waiting
They'll awake to find you gone
Open their eyes and think they're dreaming
And never did they think
That their Abilene would leave them
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Now fine sir, where is it you shall take me?
Is it in the mountains high
Or is it the deep blue sea?
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