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Artist: Ryan Adams
Canonical path: /ryan-adams/madeline
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Madeline
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Madeline
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I was born on a riverboat
Didn't know my own name
Dancing with the women in the Captain's room
Dying on the dock of the bay
All hands on deck (all hands on deck)
Born in the slave quarter, didn't have a dime
Ask me about the Captain's daughter
What was her name?
It was Madeline, Madeline, Madeline
I was caught by the howling wind
Boy, did it blow my mind
Walking with the cane out in the cotton fields
Fashioned with a blade out of pine
All hands on deck (all hands on deck)
Born in the slave quarter, didn't have a dime
Ask me about the Captain's daughter
What was her name?
It was Madeline, Madeline, Madeline
Well, I was born on a riverboat
Didn't know my own name
Dancing with the women in the Captain's room
Dying on the dock of the bay
All hands on deck (all hands on deck)
Born in the slave quarter, didn't have a dime
Ask me about the captain's daughter
What was her name?
It was Madeline, Madeline, Madeline
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Ryan Adams performs "Madeline", and this lyric page sits inside the Ryan Adams catalog on LyroVerse.
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