No other’s bride I’ll be    (intro)

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1. Just one year ago today, love, I became your happy bride,

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changed a mansion for a cottage to dwell by the river side.

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You told me I'd be happy, but no happiness I see,

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for tonight I am a widow in a cottage by the sea.

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All alone by the seaside he left me, and no other's bride I'll be,

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for in bridal flowers he begged me in the cottage by the sea.

+ instrumental = CHORUS

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2. From my cottage by the seaside I can see my mansion home,

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I can see those hills and valleys where with pleasure I have roamed.

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The last time that I saw him, oh how happy then were we,

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but tonight I am a widow in the cottage by the sea.

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All alone by the seaside he left me, and no other's bride I'll be,

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for in bridal flowers he begged me in the cottage by the sea.

+ D - G - A - D + repeat CHORUS

Recorded 5/7/35 New York, NY

(orig. = capo 3rd) (The Carter Family)