[ti:The Soldiers Sweetheart ]
[ar:Jimmie Rodgers]
[al:Blue Yodels]
[00:03.12]Once I had a sweetheart
[00:09.29]A sweetheart brave and true
[00:15.21]His hair was dark and curly
[00:22.20]His loving eyes were blue
[00:27.49]He told me that he loved me
[00:33.21]And he often proved it so
[00:40.40]And he often came to see me
[00:45.10]When the evening sun was low
[00:53.00]But fate took him away
[00:59.00]To this awful German war
[01:05.40]And when he came to say goodbye
[01:11.00]My heart did overflow
[01:17.40]He says, "Goodbye, little darling
[01:22.49]To France I must go
[01:31.21]He takes the golden finger ring
[01:37.47]And he placed it on my hand
[01:42.00]Said, "Remember me, little darling
[01:49.40]When I'm in no man's land"
[01:56.32]He promised he would write to me
[02:01.02]That promise he kept was true
[02:07.40]And when I read this letter, friend
[02:14.31]I pray the war is through
[02:20.00]The second letter I got from him
[02:27.00]The war was just ahead
[02:33.20]The third one, wrote by his captain
[02:39.40]My darling dear was dead
[02:46.30]I'll keep all of his letters
[02:52.10]I'll keep his gold ring, too
[02:57.20]And I'll always live a single life
[03:03.21]For the soldier who was so true