Lover’s farewell
D G D A
1. We have met and we have parted, we have spoke
our last goodbye,
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G D
- A D
you have proved to me false
hearted, you may now forever go.
D G
You have wrecked the heart
I’ve cherished,
D A
you have done me day by day,
D G D - A
D
you are false but I’ll forgive
you, to forget you I cannot say.
G D G D
For I love you, dear, I love you, more than all this world, I know,
D G D - A
D
you have proved to me false-hearted, you may now forever go.
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- D - G - D - A - D
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2. On the river bank I’ll loiter till I see your face once more,
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G D - A
D
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 willows wave,
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in the cold and silent rushes,
there you’ll find my lonely grave.
+ CHORUS
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3. O I wish I was white marble, cold and white on some far shore,
D G
this poor heart would cease
from troubling,
D - A D
and I’d feel the pain no more. + CHORUS
Recorded 5/24/30
(The Carter Family)