THE LOVER’S FAREWELL
As recorded by the Carter Family, 1930. (Bluebird 6036, Montgomery Ward 5012)

We have met and we have parted.
We have spoke our last goodbye.
You have proved to me false-hearted.
You may now forever go.

You have wrecked the heart I've cherished.
You have doomed me day by day.
You are false, but I forgive you.
To forget you, I cannot say.

For I love you, dear, I love you
More than all this world I know.
You have proved to me false-hearted.
You may now forever go.

On the river bank I'll loiter
Till I'll see your face once more,
Then I'll plunge beneath the water
And I'll land on some far shore.

Among the trees and bushes
Where the dark green willow waves,
In the cold and silent rushes,
There you'll find my lonely grave.

For I love you, dear, I love you
More than all this world I know.
You have proved to me false-hearted.
You may now forever go.

Oh, I wish I was white marble.
Cold and white on some far shore.
This poor heart would cease from troubling
And I'd feel the pain no more.

For I love you, dear, I love you
More than all this world I know.
You have proved to me false-hearted.
You may now forever go.