Dark Haired True Lover

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    I once had a dark haired true lover,
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    she was all this world to me.
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    She promised herself to another,
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     now don't you think this was mean.

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Take back every word you have spoken,
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let it be as though we never met,
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for tonight I'm a poor boy heartbroken,
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I'll forgive but I'll never forget.

( D A D )

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    I was young when I wrote my first letter,
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    I blotted the lines with tears,
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    but now I am old, I know better,
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    we parted for many long years

           D
Take back every word you have spoken,
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let it be as though we never met,
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for tonight I'm a poor boy heartbroken,
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I'll forgive but I'll never forget.

( D A D )

            D
    Oh Ruth, oh Ruth, how I love you,
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    you just seem to me like a bird,
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    although you went back on your promise,
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    although you went back on your word.

           D
Take back every word you have spoken,
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let it be as though we never met,
          G                                       D
for tonight I'm a poor boy heartbroken,
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I'll forgive but I'll never forget.

( D A D )

            D
    We parted in the month of September,
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    some says we parted for life,
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    but I hope someday or another,
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    I'll call you my sweet darling wife.

           D
Take back every word you have spoken,
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let it be as though we never met,
          G                                       D
for tonight I'm a poor boy heartbroken,
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I'll forgive but I'll never forget.

( D A D )

        D
    I wish I had someone to love me,
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    someone to call me their own,
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    for I'm out in this wide world a wand'ring,
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    I'm tired of living alone.