Tragic Romance-The Stanley Brothers

[ti:Tragic Romance] [ar:The Stanley Brothers] [al:Weeping Willow, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.35]Tragic Romance - The Stanley Brothers [00:01.66] [00:08.63]Nestled in the heart of the Tennessee hills [00:12.79] [00:13.88]Midst peaceful pines neath the rocks and the rills [00:17.71] [00:20.28]There stands my old homestead of long long ago [00:24.40] [00:25.44]It brings back one memories of the one I loved so [00:29.86] [00:32.13]I courted a maiden so sweet and so fair [00:36.09] [00:37.47]With pearly blue eyes and with chestnut brown hair [00:41.70] [00:44.14]She told me she loved me and said she's be mine [00:48.67] [00:49.46]But I went away leaving her there behind [00:53.90] [00:56.20]I'll tell you the reason why I left her there [01:01.47]To roam this old world with its sorrows and cares [01:06.01] [01:08.33]I saw her one night in the arms of a man [01:12.76] [01:13.85]Hugging and kissing as true lovers can [01:18.06] [01:20.21]I went to my home with a heart full of woe [01:24.59] [01:25.57]I Packed my belongings and determined where to go [01:30.28] [01:32.36]For many long years this old world I did roam [01:36.66] [01:37.58]With thoughts in my darling and my sweetheart my own [01:41.92] [01:55.86]While dining one day in a little country town [02:00.04] [02:01.03]A stranger walk in and he changed to sit down [02:05.47] [02:07.75]While talking of loved ones I happened to find [02:11.94] [02:12.88]That his sister was that old sweetheart of mine [02:17.55] [02:19.55]When he heard my story to me then he said [02:23.98] [02:24.75]The one that you loved has a long time been dead [02:29.30] [02:31.36]Now I am the man who you saw that fateful night [02:35.58] [02:36.98]Wrapped in the arms of my sister so tight [02:40.90] [02:43.25]She loved you so dearly but you broke her heart [02:47.84] [02:48.44]Poor stranger from her ever more you must part