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Sweetheart, Farewell
This belongs in the same general category as 'Fond Affection,'
'We Have Met and We Have Parted,' and others, and should per-
haps have been entered as a form of one or the other of them.
'True Love from the Eastern Shore,' SharpK 11 264, from Virginia,
is somewhat similar but not the same song.
^ Miswritten, assuredly, for "pleadings."
OLDER BALLADS — MOSTLY BRITISH 429
'Sweetheart, Farewell.' From Miss Lura Wagoner's manuscript book
of songs at Vox, Alleghany county, lent to Dr. Brown in 1936.
1 Sweetheart, farewell ; at last we part.
I leave you with an aching heart.
You bid me go with cruel scorn
Nor felt the pain which I have borne.
2 \'our heart was false ; it proved untrue.
As I have loved you never knew.
Though cast away, I love you yet ;
I can forgive, but not forget.
3 I can forgive, but not forget ;
1 love you, dear, with sad regret.
Some other's smiles, some other's face
In your false heart has found a place.
4 False friends may leave, and when alone
You may repent what you have done.
Sometimes perhaps you'll think of me,
And in a dream my face may see.
5 Remember, dear, though I depart.
The image lies within my heart.
Though you may hate, I love you yet;
I can forgive, but not forget.