The sweet ever after, it's gonna hold you forever
Laid you down in the water out on the Botany Bay
It was done with a low country sun and the mud up to my knee
When I let you go on a Carolina sea
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I'll have to walk my days carrying the weight
With my weary arms shaking on the other side of the gate
Every shadow has its light, every night its dawn
So I sat down and wrote you one more song
I had a dream of you standing in the door
I was asking where you been and what you left us for
You smiled and said "I'm leaving, please don't cry for me
I'll meet you out on a Carolina sea."
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I know you don't want me to keep a broken heart too long
So I thought I'd sing you one more song