One little word (video)

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1. The dream of love is over, today we said goodbye,

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we parted not in anger though tears came in her eyes.

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'Twas just as fate decreed, dear, that we should never wed,

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yet in her heart she loved me, she married wealth instead.

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One little word could've changed my future life,

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one little word could've made her my wife.

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Too late, too late, now my fondest hopes are dead,

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one little word, that word was never said.

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2. Since schooldays we had been sweethearts,

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she was her father's pride,

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her folks lived in a mansion, our cottage by its side.

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Though years have brought their changes, the same old love tale told,

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she wed to please her parents a man of wealth and gold.

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(video in G    (The Carter Family)