[Primeira Parte]

Am 
   We met in the springtime 

When blossoms unfold 
                              
The pastures were green 
         E            Am 
And the meadows were gold 
 
Our love was in flower 

As summer grew on 
                         
Her love like the leaves 
            E         Am  
Now has withered and gone 
 
The roses have faded

There's frost at my door 
 
The birds in the morning 
       E       Am
Don't sing anymore 

The grass in the valley 

Is starting to die 
                        
And out in the darkness 
      E             Am
The whippoorwills cry 

[Refrão]
 
  F                    C 
Alone and forsaken by fate and by man 
                          
Oh, Lord, if You hear me
        Am 
Please hold onto my hand 
      E           Am 
Oh, please understand  

[Segunda Parte]

 
Oh, where has she gone to, oh

Where can she be 

She may have forsaken 
     E           Am
Some other like me 

She promised to honor

To love and obey 

Each vow was a plaything 
       E         Am
That she threw away
 
The darkness is falling

The sky has turned gray 

A hound in the distance 
     E          Am
is starting to bay

I wonder, I wonder 

What she's thinking of 

Forsaken, forgotten 
    E        Am
Without any love

[Refrão]
 
  F                    C 
Alone and forsaken by fate and by man 
                          
Oh, Lord, if You hear me
        Am 
Please hold onto my hand 
      E           Am 
Oh, please understand