Tragic Love

Come pretty young girls give me your attention To these few lines I've tried to write About a man who I won't mention Who courted of his charming bride And when her parents came to know him They tried so hard both day and night To separate here and her own true lover Her and her own true hearts delight She turned her back upon the city She viewed the fields and meadows round She came upon a broad river And in the shade of a tree sat down Her true love being not far behind He heard her make a mournful sound And looking on her lifeless body As she lay cold upon the ground He then took out his silver weapon He pierced it through his tender heart Sayin let this be a dreadful warning For all true lovers that have to part --- Tragic Love - The Stanley Brothers