Banks of the Ohio

19e-eeuwse ballad van een onbekende auteur.
Het lied lijkt romantisch, maar is eigenlijk een murder ballad: het gaat over een jongeman die zijn beminde verdrinkt in de Ohiorivier omdat ze niet met hem wil trouwen.

Banks of the Ohio

Strofe 1: I asked my C love to take a G walk

Just to G7 walk a little C way

As we walked along we F talked

All about C our G wedding C day

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And only C say that you'll be G mine

And our G7 home will happy C be

Down beside where the waters F flow

Down on the C banks of the G Ohio C

Strofe 2: I took her C by her lily white G hand

Led her G7 down where the waters C stand

There I pushed her in to F drown

And watched C as she G floated C down

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Strofe 3: I started C home tween twelve and G one

I cried, "My G7 God, what have I C done."

I murdered the only woman I F loved

Because she C would not G marry C me.

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Strofe 4: The very next C morning about half-past G four

the sheriff G7 came knocking on my C door

He said, "Young man, come with me and F go

Down to the C banks of the G Ohio. C

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