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This karaoke version has been produced by Zoom Karaoke and the recording rights are owned and controlled by Zoom Entertainments Limited - Song lyrics: TWENTY YEARS AGO LAST CHRISTMAS CAME A TEMPTER TO MY WIFE STOLE THE ONLY FLOWER I CHERISHED AND I VOWED I'D HAVE HIS LIFE IN THE STREET ONE DAY I MET HIM IN MY EYES THAT VILLAIN GRINNED THEN THE CURSE OF CAIN CAME O'ER ME 'TWAS ON THAT VERY DAY I SINNED SURE I DREAM AS THE HAMMER STRIKES THE ANVIL AND I DREAM AS THE SPARKS LIGHT ON THE FLOOR OF MY BLUE-EYED TURTLE DOVE SHE'S THE ONLY GIRL I LOVE AS SHE STOOD OUTSIDE THAT GOOD OLD SMITHY DOOR TWELVE MONTHS PASSED THEN CAME MY TRIAL IN THE COURT I SAW MY WIFE AND I HEARD HER BEG FOR MERCY WHEN THEY SENTENCED ME FOR LIFE FOR TWELVE LONG YEARS I'VE READ HER LETTERS THE ONLY COMFORT I CAN TELL WHEN I HEARD THAT SHE WAS DYING 'TWAS THEN MY LONELY SPIRITS FELL SURE I DREAM AS THE HAMMER STRIKES THE ANVIL AND I DREAM AS THE SPARKS LIGHT ON THE FLOOR OF MY BLUE-EYED TURTLE DOVE SHE'S THE ONLY GIRL I LOVE AS SHE STOOD OUTSIDE THAT GOOD OLD SMITHY DOOR LATE ONE NIGHT I DODGED THE WARDERS O'ER THE PRISON WALLS I SPRANG THEN GOT HOME FOOT-SORE AND WEARY AT THE BREAKING OF THE DAWN SHE WAS GLAD SO GLAD TO SEE ME IN MY ARMS THAT NIGHT SHE DIED THEN THE WARDERS RUSHED THE DOORWAY AND THEY FOUND ME THERE INSIDE WHEN THEY SAW HER LIFELESS BODY AND I KNEELING ON THE FLOOR THEY SAID JACK, MY LAD WE'LL TRUST YOU COME BACK WHEN YOU'VE LAID HER LOW SURE I DREAM AS THE HAMMER STRIKES THE ANVIL AND I DREAM AS THE SPARKS LIGHT ON THE FLOOR OF MY BLUE-EYED TURTLE DOVE SHE'S THE ONLY GIRL I LOVE AS SHE STOOD OUTSIDE THAT GOOD OLD SMITHY DOOR
