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pairlee was a bastard childborn in east tennesseemama left her one day, granddaddy took her awaygrandpa just tended his milland he planted the corn in the fieldpairlee works by his side, they sing up to the skypairlee, pairlee died under an apple treeone cold winter's night, the frost took her lifethey'd walk through the woods at nightholding hands, he'd let her leaddreamt of days without corn, prayed with hands that were wornthere's something about them woodsa child can never knowwhere the old fallen leaves go when they float down the streampairlee, pairlee died under an apple treeone cold winter's night, the frost took her lifeand grandpa, he loved pairleebut his mind was getting so oldSongtexteone night beneath that tree, pairlee fell asleepand grandpa just wandered aroundin the dark down by the creekit was mid december when her forgot herpairlee, pairlee died under an apple treeone cold winter's night, the frost took her lifenow pa just sits in his yardno corn to tend in his mill'neath that tree he finds shade, right where pairlee laid Aus Songtexte Mania