Forsaken Lover
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
Contact Publisher - TRO-Essex Music Group
I will tell a sad sad story
I’m gonna tell this story true
About an old forsaken lover
Of my heart broke sad and blue.
It was on one summery evening
It was on a day so clear
Sailed across that lonesome ocean
From this girl he loved so dear.
How I miss you, how I miss you
How I wish that you were here
I’m your old forsaken lover
And my poor heart’s sad and drear.
If you see my rambling darling
If you see my soldier love
Tell him that his lonely darling
Waits for him back home alone.
High upon this Ozark mountain
My soldier love so far away
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely,
I cry by night, and I weep by day.
I’m your old forsaken lover
On this riverbank alone
My eyes have never been dry one minute
Since that war took you and gone .
My life looks like a stormy cloudbank
Where no sun can ever shine through
My sweet wind howls and cries around me
Since that warship sailed with you.
When my heart gets heavy laden
When my eyes can cry no more
I fall down by my budding roses
And pray for god to end this war.
Where my minglewood is weeping
Where my red rippling waters glide
I prayed to God to bring my soldier
Back to take me for his bride.
I’m your old forsaken lover
On this riverbank alone
My eyes have never been dry one minute
Since that war took you and gone.
© Copyright Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI)
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