Outside Over There

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Outside over there
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Where the war was raging
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Run little child far from home
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the lord will take you with him


[Verse 1]
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As mushrooms high as mountains
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Came from neptunes submarines
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A little girl named Ida
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Lived in a shack up by the sea
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Her daddy was away at war
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Her mother'd lost her mind
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So Ida in the arbour softly sang 
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her lullaby
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To hush her baby sister and to 
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calm her mother's shakes
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And by the waves a-crashing for 
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her father she would wait


[Verse 2]
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One evening Ida sang her songs 
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soft as May breeze blows
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When a blinding flash of light 
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came her eyes began to close
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Devil's in their hooded cloaks 
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through the window climbed
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They took her sister from her 
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crib and ran off into the night
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When Ida looked to check the crib 
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when finally she arose,
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She saw a figure made of ice 
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melting by the stove


[Chorus]
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Outside over there
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Where the war was raging
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Run little child far from home
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the lord will take you with him


[Verse 3]
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Ida put on her mother's coat and 
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walked out to the cliffs,
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The sky was scarred with napalm 
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the hills were drowned with mist
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She buried a rose in the ground 
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and started up the road
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To find her sister in the night 
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and safely bring her home
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There were soldiers in the 
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twilight, thieves drinking by the 
caves
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She just listened out for her 
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daddy's voice to come drifting 
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across the waves


[Verse 4]
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On the edge of Neptune's kingdom 
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there was a forest and it was said,
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That any man that went in there 
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was never seen again,
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But Ida clutched her mother's coat
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 and pressed on through the trees,
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For in the ground she saw the 
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tracks of wretched Devil's feet
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The path ahead grew fainter as the
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 branches tied in knots
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And Ida felt like every step she 
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took was being watched


[Chorus]
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Outside over there
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Where the war was raging
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Run little child far from home
    C         D         Em
the lord will take you with him


[Verse 5]
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There deep among the wild wood the
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 girl began to tire
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When she came across a cabin 
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windows flickered with a fire
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She knocked upon the wooden door 
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an old man showed his face
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With kind eyes like her father's 
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and a beard long and grey
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She saw her sister sleeping near 
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two angels wearing hoods
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She had some supper then slept a 
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while to dream about the woods.
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After three days passed the mist 
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had cleared the sky was clear and 
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bright,
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She took her sister in her arms and
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 bid the man goodbye
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She ran back through the forest 
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saw no soldiers nor no thieves,
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Till she found herself back up at 
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the shack by the sea
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But when she flung her arms around 
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her mother she shed tears
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For the woman stood before her was
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 blind and aged by thirty years
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She said "Oh my darling Ida, my 
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wait is at an end,
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As this rose bush grew I prayed 
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each day that we would meet again",
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So they sat out in the evening and 
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the sun shone all around
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Till early the next morning when 
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their bodies were found.


[Chorus]
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Outside over there
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Where the war was raging
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Run little child far from home
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the lord will take you with him