Delmore Brothers – The girl by the river lyrics

I met a fair maiden so sweet and so fair
Where the wild flowers bloomed on the shore
And one of these flowers was fixed in her hair
I can still see that flower she wore.

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The girl by the river
She meets me no more
No more do the wild flowers grow
Perhaps she will meet me on some distant shore
She's gone where the wild flowers grow.

We made a nice couple
We talked and we sang
So sweet was her laughter to hear
But the beautiful flowers
So wild was that name
Grew closer and to her more dear.

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Through spring and through summer
We capered around
Through the beautiful wild flowers there
In autumn they faded
And could not be found
And my darling she showed a strange fear.

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We'd made our plans for a wedding to be
She told me that she would be mine
One day she vanished
And now I can't find
My darling, my sweet heart divine.

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