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Artist: Natalie Merchant
Canonical path: /natalie-merchant/the-ballad-of-henry-darger
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The Ballad of Henry Darger
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The Ballad of Henry Darger
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Who'll save the poor little girl?
Henry Darger
Who'll save the poor little girl?
Henry
Who'll tell the story of her?
Henry Darger
Who'll tell it to all the world?
Henry
Who'll buy the carbon paper now?
Henry Darger
Who'll trace the lines of her mouth?
Henry
Who will conquer foreign worlds
Searching for the stolen girls?
Princesses you'll never fear
The patron saint of girls is here!
Who will draw the cavalry in
And risk his very own precious skin
To make our Angelinia a free
And beautiful land again?
Henry
Who'll love a poor orphan child, Henry Darger, Lost, growing savage and wild? Henry
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Natalie Merchant performs "The Ballad of Henry Darger", and this lyric page sits inside the Natalie Merchant catalog on LyroVerse.
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