Key: D majorā¢
Verse 1
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In a little rosewood casket
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Resting on a marble stand
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There's a package of old letters
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Will you go and bring them, sister,
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and read them o 'er to me?
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Often I have tried to read them,
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Read those precious lines so slowly,
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So that I'll not miss a one.
T 'was a loved one's
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hand that wrote them,
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His last word for me is done.
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You have got them now, dear sister,
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And press gently to your bosom
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This poor throbbing, aching head.
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Tell him, sister, when you see him,
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That I never ceased to love,
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And my dying prayers to meet him
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Tell him that I never blamed him,
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Not an unkind word was spoke.
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Tell, oh, tell him, sister, tell him,
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Tell him that I always loved him,
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Tell him that I'll not forget him
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When I'm dead and in my coffin,
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With my shroud around me bound,
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And my narrow grave is ready,
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In some lonely churchyard ground,
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Placed his letters and his locket
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Both together o 'er my heart
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And the golden ring he gave me
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From my finger never part
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You have finished now, dear sister,
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will you read them o 'er again?
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While I listen to you read them,
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I will lose all sense of pain.
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While I listen to you read them,
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I will gently fall asleep,
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Fall asleep to wake with Jesus,
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O dear sister, do not weep. you
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