We have met and we have parted, we have spoke our last goodbye,
you have proved to me false hearted, you may now forever go.
You have wrecked the heart I?ve cherished,
you have done me day by day,
you are false but I?ll forgive you, to forget you I cannot say.
For I love you, dear, I love you, more than all this world, I know,
you have proved to me false-hearted, you may now forever go.
On the river bank I?ll loiter till I see your face once more,
then I?ll plunge beneath the water and I?ll land on some far shore.
Among the trees and bushes where the dark green willows wave,
in the cold and silent rushes, there you?ll find my lonely grave.
O I wish I was white marble, cold and white on some far shore,
this poor heart would cease from troubling,
and I?d feel the pain no more.