Why There's A Tear In My Eye-Jimmie Rodgers

[ti:Why There's A Tear In My Eye] [ar:Jimmie Rodgers] [al:The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why There's A Tear In My Eye - Jimmie Rodgers [00:07.64]I once loved a beautiful maiden [00:10.65] [00:12.14]As fair as the blue skies above [00:14.81] [00:16.66]And each night as we wandered together [00:19.51] [00:21.24]The moon seemed to smile on our love [00:23.81] [00:25.75]We vowed to be true to each other [00:28.51] [00:30.26]That nothing could cause us to part [00:33.01] [00:34.65]But we never once dreamed that the future [00:37.74] [00:39.24]Held only a broken heart [00:41.93] [00:43.83]Then there came the night when we parted [00:46.77] [00:48.36]We quarreled as all sweethearts do [00:51.09] [00:52.89]And I learned what it was to be jealous [00:55.86] [00:57.30]When they told me her love was untrue [01:00.08] [01:01.92]She told me she had always been faithful [01:05.08] [01:06.47]She swore that her love could not die [01:09.13] [01:10.99]And then when I did not believe her [01:14.13] [01:15.62]She kissed me and told me goodbye [01:18.13] [01:20.23]Oh de lay ee oh de lay ee yo de lay ee [01:25.60] [01:36.27]I found I had falsely accused her [01:39.29] [01:40.90]And went back to make her my bride [01:43.53] [01:45.40]And there in the door stood her mother [01:48.20] [01:49.87]She told me my sweetheart had died [01:52.74] [01:54.55]I went in and knelt down beside her [01:57.64] [01:59.18]And there in the hush of that room [02:01.92] [02:03.77]I prayed that my maker would take me [02:06.78] [02:08.26]And send my soul down to its doom [02:11.03] [02:13.04]So now I have told you the reason [02:15.88] [02:17.59]There's always a tear in my eye [02:20.24] [02:22.18]Through long weary years I've repented [02:25.29] [02:26.91]But I'm longing to lay down and die [02:29.52] [02:31.51]And I wonder if I'll be forgiven [02:34.50] [02:36.00]When I face the master someday [02:38.72] [02:40.54]And I wonder if I'll see my sweetheart [02:43.78] [02:44.89]On that beautiful shore far away [02:48.03] [02:49.77]Oh de lay ee oh de lay ee yo de lay ee