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Artist: The Carter Family
Canonical path: /the-carter-family/lover-s-farewell
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Lover's Farewell
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Lover's Farewell
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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 done me day by day
You are false but I'll forgive you
To forget you I cannot say
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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 see your face once more
Then I'll plunge beneath the water
And I'll land on some far shore
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Among the trees and bushes
Where the dark green willow sway
In the cold and silent rushes
There you'll find my lonely grave
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O 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
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