Why Did You Give Me Your Love

(Jimmie Rodgers)



Oh, why did you give me your love dear

When it lasted only a day

Why did you teach me to love you

Only to turn me away.



You promised that you would be true

Your promise was all in vain

But my heart keeps calling for you dear

Like the flowers call for the rain.



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You may be sorry some day dear

That you have broken my heart

That you have passed me away dear

And fooled me from the start.



Now this is my last appeal dear

I've only a word to say

Oh, why did you give me your love dear

When it lasted only a day...