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I peeked in to say goodnight
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and then I heard my child in prayer.
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"And for me, some scarlet ribbons,
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scarlet ribbons for my hair."
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Through the night my heart was aching
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just before the dawn was breaking.
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I peeked in and on her bed
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in gay profusion lying there--
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Lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons,
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scarlet ribbons for her hair.
Verse 2
All the stores were closed and shuttered;
all the streets were dark and bare.
In our town no scarlet ribbons,
not one ribbon for her hair.
If I live to be one hundred,
I will never know from where,
Came those lovely scarlet ribbons,
scarlet ribbons
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for her hair.
