Verse:
E A B E
Oh, The years creep slowly by, Lorena, The snow is on the ground again
E A
The sun's low down the sky, Lorena
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The frost gleams where the flowers have been
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But the heart beats on as warmly now, As when the summer days were nigh
E A B E
Oh, The sun can never dip so low, To be down in affections cloudless sky
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E A B E
A hundred months have passed, Lorena, Since last, I held that hand in mine
E A B E
And felt, The pulse beat fast, Lorena, Though mine, Beat faster far than thine
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A hundred months this flowery May, When up that hilly slope we climbed
E A B E
To watch, The dying of the day, And hear, The distant church bells chime
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E A B E
We loved each other then, Lorena, Far more than we ever dared to tell
E A B E
And what we might have been, Lorena, Had our loving prospered well
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Then 'tis past, The years roll on, I'll not call up their shadowy forms
E A B E
I'll say, To them lost years, Sleep on, Sleep on, Nor heed lifes pelting storms
Outro: E A B E
