Country Girl

Country girl, country girl

I beheld her in meadowland

Bowing and reaping and singing a refrain

Oh, what a melancholy strain

The valley echoed with a ring

No nightingale could ever sing

So plaintively as the country girl

I was spellbound and curious

Why such a sad song?

Perhaps love passed her by

No hopeful rainbow in the sky

Maybe she held a memory dear

A happiness of yesteryear

In solitude cried the country girl

Came the hour to travel on

Sadness befell me

A sorrow filled my heart

A longing never to depart

The music in my soul I bore

Long after it was heard no more

And memories of a country girl

Whose love I’ll never know