Hey Bobba Needle (intro) (midi) (sample)

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(spoken : ) This is a sad story about a girl named Mary Mac.

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and her wandering lover Bob Needle.

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Softly ! I can hear her callin' :

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Hey Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle,

hey Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle.

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Hey Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle,

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hey Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle.

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Hey Bob ! Hey Bob !

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1. Mary Mac Mac Mac, all dressed in black black black,

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don't cha know I'm tryin' tryin' tryin', just to come on back back back.

‘Cause I took a plane plane plane, but there was some rain rain rain,

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and there was no flyin' flyin' flyin', so I took a train train train.

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Oh Mary Mac Mac Mac, it went off the track track track,

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can't you see I'm dyin' dyin' dyin', just to come on back back back.

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Oh! Softly ! I can hear you callin' :

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3. Well I took a boat boat boat, but it wouldn't float float float,

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so I kept on a puffin' puffin' puffin', that was all she wrote wrote wrote.

So I must wear my cross cross cross, and I bought a horse horse horse,

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but it just keeps runnin' runnin' runnin' all around the track track track.

Baby I ain't lyin' lyin' lyin', can't you see that I'm tryin' tryin' tryin',

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Don’t cha know I'm tryin' tryin' tryin' just to come on back to Mary Mac.

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Oh! Softly ! I can hear you holler :

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Hey Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle,

hey Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle.

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Hey Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle,

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hey Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle, Bobba Needle.

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Hey Bob ! Ah, yeah ! Hey Bob !

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