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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Naomi Wise</h1>
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  16 <p>Trad.<br />
  17 As performed by Bob Dylan at the Riverside Church, Jul 29 1961<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  21 Strumming pattern: |:   .   .   |
  22                    |d   d u d u |
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  28 [1 verse instr. intro]
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  30                 G                  C
  31 She promised to meet him at Adams' Spring
  32                D                        G
  33 Expecting some money or some other fine things
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  36 No money, no money to flatter the case
  37 We'll have to get married so there'll be no disgrace
  38
  39 So jump you up Omie, and away we will ride
  40 To yonder fair country and I'll make you my bride
  41
  42 She jumped up behind him and away they did go
  43 to yonder far country where the deep waters flow
  44
  45 Now jump you down Omie and I'll telly my mind
  46 My mind is to drowned you and to leave you behind
  47
  48 Oh no, oh no, please don't take my life
  49 Oh I will deny you and I'll not be your wife
  50
  51 But he kicked and he cuffed her to the worst understand
  52 And he threw her in deep water that flows through the land
  53
  54 They found the poor body the following day
  55 Run up on the river on the banks full of clay *)
  56
  57 And up spoke her mother with a voice such a-sting
  58 No one but John Lewis could have done such a thing
  59
  60 They traced him up the river to Dutch Charlie's bend
  61 Where they found him in jail for killing a man
  62
  63 Go hang him, go hang him was the mother's command
  64 Through him in deep water that flows through the land
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  66 Go hang him, go hang him was the judge's command
  67 Through him in deep water that flows through the land
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  72 <p>*) Minnesota tape: &ldquo;The preacher and the reverend they all began to pray&rdquo;
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