| As the twilight shadows deepen
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| where the weeping willow waves,
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| all alone in tears i’m kneeling
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| o’er my sweetheart’s lonely grave.
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| i am asking god’s forgiveness,
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| for you’re waiting there i know,
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| out beyond that blue horizon
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| just across the bridge of gold.
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| I regret those words i’ve spoken
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| every yesterday of tears
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| that i caused you little darling
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| as we wandered through the years
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| If i’d only read your letter
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| saying you were in despair
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| that your weary heart was broken
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| and in pain was lying there.
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| I tonight would not be weeping
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| o’er the roses on your grave.
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| but instead dear i’d be happy
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| and this sorrow i’d have saved.
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| If i only would have listened
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| when you told me not to stray
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| but i said i loved another
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| left you there and went away.
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| Now my life is sad and lonely
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| down life’s path i trudge along
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| but i’ll meet you up in heaven
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| when from this old world i’ve gone. |