JAMIE'S SECRET

Near river bend where the stream runs clear

One winter morning of a day last year

I heard a secret that I now can say

Concerning Jamie, who's past away

If you had known her then you'd agree

Her smiling eyes could make a blind man see

She laughed with innocence and she moved with style

Full grown lover with childlike smile

She moved out West where the air is clean

To study poetry at Evergreen

I thought I'd see her in a year or two

Till we heard rumors

That I feared were true

They never found where she went that night

The man she lived with said they'd had a fight

She left that cabin to walk alone

He kept the light on

But she never came home

She must have gone by the riverside

The searchers say that's how she must have died

The winter water was cold with snow

An icy boulder

And down she'd go

Well I heard the news but I could not cry

I should be shattered but my eyes were dry

To feel no sorrow was my surprise

But the words came easy

For those last good-byes

Till I took a walk by the riverbend

Where once we lingered when she was my friend

I tried to melt the river of tears inside

The river flowed

But joy I cried

She may be gone from this life we know

She may have frozen in the ice and snow

But there's a secret that my heart can't tell

Except to say

That she's safe and well

Near river bend where the stream runs clear

One winter morning of a day last year

I heard a secret that I now can say

Concerning Jamie, who's passed away