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So many beautiful stories are told

   G7                                   C
Of love and affection that's purer than gold

                                             F
They meet and they love and he makes her his wife

    G7                                C
And why it can't last is a mystery of life

 
                                       F
I love you my darling I've always been true

    G7                              C
Wherever you go I'll be thinking of you

                                         F
You say you don't want me you wish to be free

   G7                                          C
If that's what you want that's the way it will be

 
                                     F
I love you too much and not wisely I know

  G7                                         C
I thought it was right cause you said it was so

                                      F
And now for my wrong dearly I pay the cost

    G7                                   C
The price is so high if your love I have lost

 
                                        F
When daddy told mother till death to us part

   G7                                  C
He said it and meant it right from the heart

                                        F
But now it is different how people have changed

    G7                                   C
The words of the Bible they don't mean a thing

 
                                  F
God made the ocean the forest and trees

   G7                                 C
He made the flowers the birds and the bees

                                          F
And why He permits all these troubles and strife

     G7                              C
That is just one of the Mysteries Of Life