Standard (EADGBE)

 We met in the springtime when blossoms unfold

 The pastures were green and the meadows were gold

 Our love was in flower as summer grew on

 Her love like the leaves now has withered and gone.

 The roses have faded theres frost at my door

 The birds in the morning dont sing anymore

 The grass in the valley is starting to die

 And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry.

Chorus

Alone and forsaken by fate and by man

 Oh Lord if You hear me please hold to my hand

 Oh please understand.

 Oh where has she gone to oh where can she be

 She may have forsaken some other like me

 She promised to honor to love and obey

 Each vow was a play thing that she threw away.

 The darkness is falling the sky has turned gray

 A hound in the distance is starting to bey

I wonder I wonder what she's thinking of

 Forsaken forgotten without any love.

(Repeat Chorus)