Let’s be lovers again    (video)

 

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1. Jack and May, sweethearts were they,

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    they were engaged to be wed,

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    many a promise he made her, many a love word he said.

 

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2. As most lovers do they quarreled one night,

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    she bid him not come anymore.

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    She gave him his hat, Jack started away,

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    but he lingered to stay at the door.

 

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Tie up those broken cords and let’s be lovers again,

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darling, you know I love you to part would give me pain.

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Let us forget the past, and make up, my pet,

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make up and be lovers again.

 

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3. Years rolled by, neither were wed,

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    all of Jack's pleadings were vain.

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    One quiet evening poor Jack was found dead,

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    all through life in dismay.

 

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4. Two lives that have been wrecked, but she loves, oh, too late,

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    she goes to his grave every day.

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    She can't tell you why, but it seems to her cry

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    the wind seems to whisper and say ...

 

 

 

 

 

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Tie up those broken cords and let’s be lovers again,

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darling, you know I love you to part would give me pain.

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Let us forget the past, and make up, my pet,

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make up and be lovers again.

 

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (The Carter Family)