21 years later, this song caught my ear, and it was so good to find lyrics here. Thank you, Harpgirl, for posting them!

I listened to Ola Belle Reed's recording and have a few corrections. I don't believe she wrote it; introducing the song she says, "this song is as old as the hills and it has the oldest flavor."

Here are the lyrics as I hear them:

Undone in Sorrow
as sung by Ola Belle Reed

Over yonder in the graveyard
Where the wild, wild flowers grow
Oh there lays my own true lover
She's gone from me forever more

Fairer than the sweetest flower
Restless as the wildest wind
Born with a love deep as the ocean
This was the girl that I did win

I left her there back in the mountains
To see the world, riches to gain
Oh when I returned no earthly treasures
Could ease this heart so full of pain

There so high upon that mountain
Beneath that little mound of clay
Oh, the girl that I’d returned to marry
So still among the flowers she lay

I'll go away and I will wander
Lay aside my earthly gain
And I'll not envy the man with riches
Undone in sorrow I remain

Undone in sorrow I remain


Dan Schatz