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I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three. |
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Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me. he said, |
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\boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago, |
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Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but i loved your grandma so.\ |
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We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together. |
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Get married in the first town we came to, and live forever. |
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But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet, instead |
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Of her, i found this letter, and this is what it said: |
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If you get there before i do, don't give up on me. |
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I'll meet you when my chores are through; |
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I don't know how long i'll be. |
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But i'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see. |
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And between now and then, till i see you again, |
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I'll be loving you. love, me. |
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I read those words just hours before my grandma passed away, |
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In the doorway of a church where me and grandpa stopped to pray. |
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I know i'd never him seen cry in all my fifteen years; |
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But as he said these words to her, his eyes filled up with tears. |
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If you get there before i do, don't give up on me. |
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I'll meet you when my chores are through; |
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I don't know how long i'll be. |
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But i'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see. |
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And between now and then, till i see you again, |
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I'll be loving you. love, me. |
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Between now and then, till i see you again, |
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I'll be loving you. love, me. |