Goodbye and Farewell

from These Old Roots by The Honey Dewdrops

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The Honey Dewdrops - Goodbye and Farewell

If it pleased me I’d promise you
To ever and ever yours be
But I’ll tell you truly
I’m not made for you to please, I’m not made for you to please

My restless eyes, how they stray
There’s another in my mind
Please know I never meant
To do you any unkind, to do you any unkind

So goodbye and farewell, I’m going away
There are words my tongue can’t say
For I found you can never suit me
And happy here, I cannot stay

Linger now, for I know
I can change your mind
For love and money, I’ve more
Than any man you can find, than any man you can find

And if your mind don’t sway
Your life I’ll take right here
Won’t let you leave me darling
For another man to call you dear, for another man to call you dear

Now goodbye and farewell, have both given way
There are words my tongue can’t say
For one way or another darling
Forever mine you will stay

My mind will never change
And death I do not fear
I’ll not be your darling
I’ll never call you dear, I’ll never call you dear

Your love you would kill
Die I rather would
Than to live and never know
A life free and good, a life free and good

Now goodbye and farewell have both given way
There are words my tongue can’t say
But I’ll tell you truly, truly
Forsaken now you must stay

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from These Old Roots, released August 11, 2010

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The Honey Dewdrops Baltimore, Maryland

Virginia born, Maryland based singer/songwriters Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish make up the duo The Honey Dewdrops. They will release their seventh album, Light Behind Light, on April 15, 2022.

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