Hank Snow – In Memory Of You Dear Old Pal (Guitar)

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Everything has gone wrong and the nights are so long

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Since you left us down here all alone,

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Everyday seems a year and the whole world is drear,

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It seems now I just can't go on.

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Standing close by my side is our own little pride,

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He misses your lullaby tune,

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And his big dark blue eyes swell with tears as he cries

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Won't Mummy come back to us soon?

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I planted sweet lilies for you dearest one

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On your grave 'neath the pines in the dawn

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And our baby each day kneeled with me as I prayed

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In mem'ry of you dear old pal.

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The angels will love you and keep you I know,

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'cause they needed some one just like you

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To brighten the heaven around God's great throne,

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And add a new star to the blue.

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I'll watch o'er the baby and tend him with care

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And each night by his bedside I'll kneel

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And if tears do not stop me I'll sing him to sleep

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in mem'ry of you dear old pal

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All your big stakes and treasures I placed them away

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To me they mean more than a world

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And the baby's first curl to your picture I've pinned

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In mem'ry of you dear old pal