From the album SUMMER BREEZE 1972 Long long ago in a house up the road Lived a maiden so beautiful Day after day she looked the same old way As the sun shone off her hair of gold Someday I would go there and ask for her hand Just as soon as I become a man In the afternoon shed sit in the shade And wave as I watched from down the road Time after time I wished my head to lay In her arms and at last she would know Then one day a stranger came to call And took her far away from down the road I watched til the dusk from the fields down below But in vain for the night began to fall Then came the message that summoned me to town And my knees gave way to the ground Spoken They say that this message came with her dying breath The very last words she ever spoke Give my love to the boy down the road And tell him not to cry, for I know
road, came, message, watched, summoned