Lonesome Scenes of Winter - Cara Dillon
As the lonesome scenes of winter in stormy winds so blow
Clouds around the center inclined to frost and snow
You're the boy that I have chosen to be my only dear
Your scornful heart is frozen and drifted far I fear
One night I went to see my love
but he proved most scornfully
I asked him if he'd marry me
but he would not marry me
The night it is far spent
my love
it's near the break of day
And I'm waiting for your answer
my dear, what do you say?
I can but playing tell you
I 'll lead a single life
I never thought it fitting that you should be my wife
So take a civil answer and for yourself provide
I have another sweetheart and you I have laid aside
Now my mind is changing that old love for the new
This wide and lonsome valley I mean to ramble thru'
In search of someone handsome that might my fancy fill
That world is wide and lonesome
If he don't another will
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