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The Broken Heart
Just this form of the song of lovers parting I have not found
elsewhere.
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script songbook of Mrs. Mary Martin Copley, RFD 8, Durham.
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1 Dearest one, don't you remember
The last time we did part ?
My feelings off time have been tender
While piercing pains roll through my heart.
2 To think how we loved each other,
Think of the happy hours we have spent
In peace and pleasure both together ;
Our joyful hearts were then content.
3 But oh, alas ! we are sundered apart
Never more to meet again.
There's none can heal the broken-hearted
Nor banish away doubts and pains.
4 Oh, pleasure it is a beautiful flower
And peace it is the joy of hearts,
But trouble will come in in the hour
And cause true lovers to part.
5 You left me, darling, lonely weeping.
I loved you, and I loved you true.
And oftime when I am sleeping
Yet in my lonesome dreams you appear.