Misc Traditional – Cruel Willie Willie Duncan (Guitar)

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Long ago there lived a man who courted all the women

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And they tell me Willie Duncan was his name.

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He left a mighty long line of saddened ladies,

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Cruel Willie was a devil, what a shame.

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Katie Lou, she was a handsome lady in the valley

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And they say her hair was likened to the sun.

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And her eyes were blue as all the heavens put together,

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She was just about as pretty as they come.

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Cruel Willie, ain't you sad,

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For makin all the women feel bad?

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Cruel Willie, ain't you 'shamed,

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For causing all the women all the pain?

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Willie Boy was ridin' in his wagon one morning

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When he came along the darling Katie Lou.

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He was so betaken by her special kind of beauty

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He was barely heard to whisper howdy do.

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Katie Lou, she smiled and said, "Now I don't believe you know me

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But you knew my little sister very well.

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She was just a special kind of sweet little lady

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'Til you took her and you broke her all to hell."

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Cruel Willie, ain't you sad,

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For makin all the women feel bad?

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Cruel Willie, ain't you 'shamed,

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For causing all the women all the pain?

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Willie Boy smiled and then he said, "I don't believe you know me,

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For I never hurt a woman in my life."

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Then he leaned a little bit closer for to kiss her

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And she stuck him in the belly with a knife.

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Now the wind that flutters ever gentle through the valley

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By the place where Willie's sleeping in the ground.

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And the words that read upon the stone of Willie Duncan

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Say that one too many women got him down.

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Cruel Willie, ain't you sad,

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For makin all the women feel bad?

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Cruel Willie, ain't you 'shamed,

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For causing all the women all the pain?