Did you ever go down to the river
Two a.m. midnight by your self?
Sit down by the river
And wonder what you got left?
Did you ever think about your mother?
God bless her,
dead and gone!
Did you ever think about your sweetheart
And wish she'd never been born?
Down on the Harlem River:
Two a.m.
Midnight!
By your self!
Lawd, I wish I could die
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But who would miss me if I left?