DARK-HAIRED TRUE LOVER
(A. P. Carter)

I once had a dark-haired true lover. She was all this world to me.
She promised herself to another. Now, don't you think this was mean?

(Chorus:)
Take back every word you have spoken. Let it be as though we never met,
For tonight I'm a poor boy heart-broken. I'll forgive but I'll never forget

I was young when I wrote my first letter. I blotted the lines with tears.
But now I am old, I know better. We've parted for many long years. (Chorus)

Oh, Ruth, Oh, Ruth, how I love you. You just seem to me like a bird,
Although you went back on your promise, although you went back on your word. (Chorus)

We parted in the month of September. Some says we parted for life.
But I hope someday or another I'll call you my sweet darling wife. (Chorus)

I wish I had someone to love me, someone to call me their own.
For I'm out in this wide world a-wand'ring. I'm tired of living alone. (Chorus)
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As recorded by the Carter Family, Decca 5477, 1937.
@country @rejection JTD ^^