The Smiths - Suffer Little Children

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Over the moors, take me to the moors
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dig a shallow grave and I’ll lay me down
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Over the moors, take me to the moors
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dig a shallow grave and I’ll lay me down
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Lesley-Anne with your pretty white beads
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oh John, you’ll never be a man
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and you’ll never see your home… home again
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oh Manchester, so much to answer for

[Verse 2]
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Edward, see those alluring lights?
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tonight will be yo -ur very last night.
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a woman said, “I know my son is dead
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I’ll never rest my hands on his sacred head.”
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Hindley wakes and Hindley says:
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Hindely wakes, hindeley wakes
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Hindley wakes and says
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“Oh Wherever he has gone, I have gone.”

[Verse 3]
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But fresh lilaced moorland fields
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Cannot hide the stolid stench of death
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fresh lilaced moorland fields
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Cannot hide the stolid stench of death
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Hindley wakes aaaand says:
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Hindely wakes, hindeley wakes
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Hindley wakes aaaand says
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“Oh Whatever he has done, I have done.”

[Verse 4]
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But this is no easy ride
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for a child cries:
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“oh find me…find me, nothing more
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we’re on a sullen misty moor
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we may be dead and we may be gone
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but we will be, we will be,
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we will be right by your side
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until the day you die this is no easy ride.

[Verse 5]
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we will haunt you
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when you laugh, yeeees,
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you could say we’re a team, You might sleep,
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You might sleep, You might sleep BUuuuT
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oooooooooooooooh
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but you will never dream
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Oh, You might sleep, but you will never dream
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You might sleep, but you will never dream

[Outro]
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Oh Manchester, so much to answer for oh ohoho
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Oh Manchester, so much to answer for oh ohoho
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find me, find meeeee,
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find meeee I want you and your life.
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ooooohoooooooo
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I want you and your life. You might
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sleep, but YOU oooooohoo
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you will never dream oooho
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ohhoooh
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Over the moor, I’m on the moor
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ooohoooo
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Over the moor The
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child iiiiis on the,
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mooooooor.

[Instrumental]
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