Long Before Your Time-Pat Woods

[ti:Long Before Your Time] [ar:Pat Woods] [al:From County Armagh] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Long Before Your Time - Pat Woods [00:10.68]You ask me why i look so sad [00:14.59]On this bright summer day [00:17.90] [00:18.50]And why the tears are in my eyes [00:22.34]And i seem so far away [00:25.36] [00:26.28]Well sit yourself beside me here [00:30.28]And put your hand in mine [00:33.28] [00:34.00]And i'll tell you of someone i loved long [00:38.35]Long before your time [00:41.52] [00:43.74]I'm sitting here and thinking [00:47.22]Of those days so long ago [00:51.02] [00:51.78]When i was just a child like you [00:55.68]And a girl i used to know [00:58.84] [00:59.70]Though fields of green we laughed [01:02.69]And played and sang our [01:04.77]Merry rhymes [01:06.82] [01:07.45]Oh summer days were warmer then [01:11.46]Long long before your time [01:14.85] [01:17.14]Through childhood years our love did bloom [01:21.29]Till our hearts were [01:22.54]Just as one [01:24.13] [01:24.91]And we promised each eternal love [01:29.03]In the church below the town [01:31.95] [01:32.90]We settled in this little house [01:36.66]I was proud to call her mine [01:39.95] [01:40.64]Oh we were young and happy then [01:44.61]Long long before your time [01:48.00] [02:00.31]One lovely year was all we had [02:04.31]Until the sickness came [02:07.18] [02:08.09]And stole the roses from her cheeks [02:11.99]My tears they fell like rain [02:15.07] [02:15.92]For nine long months she carried you [02:19.84]But in the end she died [02:22.90] [02:23.74]She chose to go so you might live [02:27.57]Long long before your time [02:30.95] [02:31.63]So you ask me why i look so sad [02:35.53]On this bright summers day [02:38.80] [02:39.43]And why the tears are in my eyes [02:43.40]And i seem so far away [02:46.61] [02:47.24]It's just you seem a lot like her [02:51.09]When your eyes look into mine [02:54.47] [02:54.98]And you smile so much like she did long [02:59.36]Long before your time