Burl Ives - Mary ann regrets

1. ^CI saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some ^G7flowers, ^G7For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the ^Chours. ^CThen today in the mail I received this short little ^Fnote, ^FAnd I ^G7broke down inside at the message that her mother ^Cwrote.

'^CMary-Ann regrets she's unable to see you ^Fagain, ^FWe're ^G7leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy 'till ^Cthen.' ^CThey know that she loves me, but poor boys don't fit in their ^Fplan. ^FGood-^G7bye, good luck, ^Ggood-bye my ^G7sweet ^CMary-Ann. 2.^CThe weeks have gone by - not a word have I heard since ^G7then. ^G7In the papers I read of the far away places she's ^Cbeen. ^CI can't eat, I can't sleep, for over and over ^Fagain, ^FMy ^G7mind reads that ^Gletter and I ^G7cry for my M^Cary-Ann.

3.^CMy Mary-Ann died - they say she just wasted ^G7away. ^G7If I could have seen her I know she'd be ^Gliving ^Ctoday. ^CFor we loved each other and if they had ^C7left us ^Falone, ^G7Today she'd be wearing my ^Gring, not a blanket of^C stone.