Love Lorn Man

The sad song a drunk was singing brought to his eyes a tear As he sat by the bar room counter sipping from his glass of beer Once more he thought of blond haired Mary with the eyes of hazel brown The fairest maid that ever walked the streets of his Hometown. Since the day that she forsook him towards self pity he's inclined And her beautiful features still haunt his love sick mind She left him for another when the flowers were in full bloom And the lark was singing sweetly in the sunny month of June So few people ever get what they want most in life And what he wanted most of all was to make her his wife But the man who took her from him married her in the Spring In the merry month of April when the joyful song birds sing. Time will ease his heartache but time will not erase From his mind the memory of her beautiful face He may find another who to him will be true But he could not love her half as much as the love he once knew He slowly finished off his beer and walked out to the frosty night The sky was full of twinkling stars, the moon was beaming bright He walked back to his lodging house and went into his bed With memories of his erstwhile love still pictured in his head.