many years ago i had a love so pretty so true but ever so young each night we d meet neath the twin oak tree and dream of a life that was never to be it seems only days since i last held her near but my mind is much older and my memory unclear and though i ve seemed to forgotten the reason we ve part to this very day she still owns my heart i wonder i wonder if he s thinking of me all those years ago how it all used to be our love true it was i could never forget but each day since our parting i ve spent in regret would he still love me now i m withered and gray my daylight grows dim and short are the days may i be young and fair in the dreams dreamt by him but i m just an old faded memory of what could have been her love like a flower that clings to the vine her love how it lingers upon my old mind oh the nights that i ve spent neath that twin oak tree just hoping she d be there just waiting for me i d give my own life just to see her once more but i know in my heart i won t be waiting for long for my mind it grows darker than each day before and my heart though its beating has nothing to beat for if only my life could have lasted forever oh the things i d have done darling we d be together but time that is given is cruel and deceiving for my body has weakened and beauty is fleeting faster and faster so go the days as i cling to a life that is slipping away and with my last breath unto death may i stare i ll remember the life that we never shared