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GUY MASSEY'S FAREWELL
Written by Rob Massey
As recorded by Vernon Dalhart, 1926.

“Oh, I know on my deathbed I am lying.”
These words from his lips came soft and low.
As I sat there beside him softly cryin’,
Oh, I knew that the pain was soon to go.

Oh, it seemed I could hear the angels singin’
As I watched o’er his kind and loving face.
With a sad feeble smile, he tried to cheer me.
Oh, that mem’ry the years cannot erase.

Then he whispered: “Goodbye, my darling brother,”
And the teardrops came streamin’ down my face;
And there in a grave beside his mother,
He sleeps in his final resting place.

Now he’s gone but he’ll never be forgotten,
For the song that he sang will never die;
And the gladness he scattered all around him
Will live like a sunbeam in the sky.

And now with the bright wings of an angel,
To the arms of his darling he has flown;
And his grand ship is anchored up in heaven
Where there’s someone to call him their own.

[Guy Massey was frequently credited with writing The Prisoner's Song, whose tune this resembles.]