Over Yonder in the Graveyard

Over yonder in the graveyard
Where the wild wild flowers grow
There they laid my old true lover
She’s gone from me forever more

Buried in the sweetest flowers
Restless s as the wildest wind
On with the love deep as the ocean
This was the girl that I had wed

I left her there back in the mountains
To see the world riches to gain
When I returned no earthly treasures
Could ease this heart so full of pain

While there so high up on the mountain
Beneath that little mound of clay
The girl that I returned to marry
So still among the flowers laid

I’ll go away and I will wonder
I’ll lay aside my earthly gains
But I’ll not envy the man with the riches
Undone in sorrow I remain
Undone in sorrow I remain

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