Collected by Karl T. Gosnell For Mary C. Parler
Sung by Annie Owens Ola, Arkansas November 20, 1958
Chorus:
Reel 273, Item 13
My Blue Eyes
Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes,
Who is sailing far over the sea;
Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes,
And I wonder if he ever thinks of me.
Oh, you told me once, dear, that you loved me, And you said that we never would part.
But a link in the chain has been broken, Leaving one with a sad and aching heart.
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When the cold, cold grave shall enclose me, Won't you come and shed just one tear?
Will you say to the people around you,
A heart you have broken lies here?
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