Doc Watson – The Tragic Romance (Guitar)

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Nestled in the heart of the Tennessee hills

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Midst peaceful pines, midst the rocks and the rills

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There stands my old homestead of long, long ago

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And it brings back fond memories of the girl that I loved so

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I courted a maiden so sweet and so fair

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With heavenly eyes and the chestnut brown hair

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She told me she loved me and said that she'd be mine

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But I went away leaving her there behind

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I'll tell you the reason that I left her there

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To roam this old world with its sorrows and cares

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I saw her one night in the arms of a man

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Hugging and kissing as true lovers can

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Then I went to my home with a heart full of woe

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I packed by belongings, de-termined to go

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For many long years, this old world I did roam

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With thoughts of my darling, my sweetheart, my own

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While dining one day in a little country town

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A stranger walked in and he chanced to set down

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While talking of loved ones I happened to find

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That his sister was that old sweetheart of mine

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When he heard my story to me he then said

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The one you left there has a long time been dead

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She waited so long for the day that you'd return

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But why you had left her she never did learn

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Now I was the man that you saw that fatal night

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Wrapped in the arms of my sister so tight

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She loved you so dearly but you broke her heart

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For stranger, from her ever more you must part