Tragic Love - The Stanley Brothers

Come pretty young girls give me your attention

To these few lines I've tried to write

About a man who I won't mention

Who courted of his charming bride

And when her parents came to know him

They tried so hard both day and night

To separate here and her own true lover

Her and her own true hearts delight

She turned her back upon the city

She viewed the fields and meadows round

She came upon a broad river

And in the shade of a tree sat down

Her true love being not far behind

He heard her make a mournful sound

And looking on her lifeless body

As she lay cold upon the ground

He then took out his silver weapon

He pierced it through his tender heart

Sayin let this be a dreadful warning

For all true lovers that have to part