Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Wilma Lee Cooper
Canonical path: /wilma-lee-cooper/sweet-fern
Related lyric paths: 6
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Sweet Fern
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Sweet Fern
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Springtime is coming sweet lonesome fern, your echo in the woodland I hear
Down in the meadow so lonesome your singing
While the moonlight is shining so clear
But I know he's away in a far distant land
A land that is over the sea
Go fly to him singing your sweet little song
And tell him to come back to me
Sweet fern, sweet fern
Oh tell me, is my darling still true
Sweet fern, sweet fern
I'll be just as happy as you
Oh tell me sweet fern, is he thinking of me
And the promise he made long ago
He said he'd return from over the sea
Oh why do the years go so slow
But I know he's away in a far distant land
A land that is over the sea
Go fly to him singing your sweet little song
And tell him to come back to me
Upon my finger he placed a small ring
On the day he was leaving his home
I promised I'd be his own little girl
And love him wherever he'd roam
But I know he's away in a far distant land
A land that is over the sea
Go fly to him singing your sweet little song
And tell him to come back to me
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Wilma Lee Cooper performs "Sweet Fern", and this lyric page sits inside the Wilma Lee Cooper catalog on LyroVerse.
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