Weeping Willow Tree- Ernest Thompson (NC) 1924
[From a recording by Ernest Thompson made on September 9, 1924 on Columbia 15001-D, NYC.
R. Matteson 2017]
Weeping Willow Tree- sung by Ernest Thompson, Blind Singer from North Carolina, 1924
[harmonica solo]
1. Oh now my heart is sad and lonely,
For the one I love is gone,
She's gone she's gone to seek another
She no longer cares for me.
[Chorus] So bury me beneath the willow,
Beneath the weeping willow tree,
And when she knows I am sleeping
Then perhaps she'll think of me.
2. She told me that she dearly loved me,
And some day she'd be
She's gone she's gone to seek another
She no longer cares for me.
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3. Tomorrow was our wedding day,
But now O God will it be?
She's gone, she's gone to seek another
She no longer cares for me.
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4. She told me that she did not love me,
But I did not think it true,
Until some sweetheart's angel whispered,
"She has proved untrue to you."
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5 For now my heart is aching,
For the one I love is gone
She's gone she's gone to seek another
She no longer cares for me.
CHORUS