"Jack dear, you soon will forget me You'll soon forget your sweetheart Grace How it breaks my heart to think lad I no more shall see your smiling face Some day you'll find another Now that what worries my poor mind I always thought that I should be your wife Jack It's too late now, sweetheart, I'm blind." My father, Bill Smith, heard this song sung by Tom Vaughn, then a retired farm worker, in the Tally Ho! in Boulden, South Shropshire, UK in the 1930's. He remembered that there were other verses and thought it a grand old song, but could never sing more than the above.
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