The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee - Norman Blake, Nancy Blake

On one morning bright and clear

My old homestead I drew near

It’s a village down in sunny Tennessee

I was speeding on a train

That would carry me back again

To that girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

You could hear those children singing

As she bid farewell to me

Far across the fields of cotton

My old homestead I could see

But as the moon rose in the glory

There I told the saddest story

To that girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

It has been but quite a few years

Since I kissed away her tears

As I left her at my dear old mother’s side

And each day we’ve been apart

She’s grown nearer to my heart

As the night I asked of her to be my bride

As the train run in at last

Those familiar scenes I passed

When I kissed my mother at the station door

When the crowd gathered round

Tears on every face I found

But I missed the one who I’d been waiting for

As I whispered «Mother dear

Where is Mary?»

«She's not here.»

All the world seems lonely, sadness came to me

As she pointed to a spot

In the little churchyard lot

Where my sweetheart sleeps in sunny Tennessee