Home's a low, green valley, on the old Chesapeake shore.
Where I've whiled many happy hours away,
A-sitting and a-smokin' crack by the little Sec 8 door,
Where lived my darling homie Freddy Gray.
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Oh! my poor Freddy Gray, they have taken you away,
And I'll never see my darling homie any more;
I'm sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day.
For you've gone from the old Chesapeake shore.