Charlie and Nellie    (intro)

 

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1. Dear Nellie since I left the city, I've found I've changed my mind,

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    I hope you won’t think me untruthful or do me the least unkind.

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    I think we're both mistaken, I know you'll never suit me,

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    I owe my heart to another, of course kind friends will agree.

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    Please send me my ring and pictures, also my letters and books,

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    my clothes, with many kind wishes, respectfully yours Charlie Brooks.

 

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2.             I heard all about it, dear Charlie, I knew it would end this way,

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   I hope you will always live happy with your loving little wife, Miss Gray.

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   Now here's your ring dear Charlie, don’t give it to her I pray,

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    unless you tell her ‘twas once mine, I wore it one year today.

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    One year today, dear Charlie, so happy were we both,

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    you vowed you'd never forsake me, but I find you untrue to your oath.

 

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3.             Here's your picture dear Charlie, it's almost faded away,

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    because I kissed it so often and this you can tell Miss Gray.

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    As far as your letters dear Charlie, I burned them as they came,

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    I feared by reading them over would cause our love to inflame.

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    I must say goodbye dear Charlie, my letter is near an end,

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    remember I'm always and always forever and ever your friend.

 

Recorded 6/8/38 - Charlotte, NC

(orig. = capo 1st)    (The Carter Family)