[00:00.00]Never the Bride - Linda Thompson
[00:13.52]At sixteen I fell for Billy
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[00:20.01]He was a tall and bonny youth
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[00:27.20]A friend to every pretty girl
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[00:34.20]But a stranger to the truth
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[00:41.49]He swore he loved me dearly
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[00:47.93]I swore I'd not upset him
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[00:54.93]But he said he couldn't marry me
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[01:01.30]His wife would never let him
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[01:06.98]Oh never the bride
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[01:12.12]Never the bride
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[01:15.24]Show me a man with only one side
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[01:22.00]I'm bound to live a single life
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[01:28.81]Never oh never the bride
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[01:35.57]I took up with Jack at seventeen
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[01:42.50]No finer boy I knew
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[01:48.81]He said I was the air he breathed
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[01:55.62]And I believed his words were true
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[02:02.93]He worked the docks at Liverpool
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[02:09.26]Loading steamers bound for Spain
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[02:16.83]But his heart was young and restless
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[02:22.76]And he soon sailed away
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[02:28.85]Oh never the bride
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[02:34.04]Never the bride
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[02:37.10]Show me a man with only one side
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[02:43.74]I'm bound to live a single life
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[02:50.62]Never oh never the bride
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[03:25.21]I turned eighteen that summer
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[03:30.77]And I wore John Dawson's ring
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[03:38.72]He sailed for Valparaiso
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[03:45.03]And I waited 'til the spring
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[03:51.85]I turned away all others
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[03:58.04]And I slept alone each night
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[04:05.92]When I cried 'twas not for Johnny
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[04:11.86]' Twas for my sorry life
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[04:18.01]Oh never the bride
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[04:23.07]Never the bride
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[04:26.20]Show me a man with only one side
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[04:33.01]I'm bound to live a single life
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[04:39.74]Never oh never the bride
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[04:46.88]Never oh never the bride