i saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers for saturday s date and i restlessly counted the hours and today in the mail i recieved a short little note and i broke down inside the message that her mother wrote mary ann regrets she s unable to see you again we re leaving for europe next week she ll be busy till then they know that she loves me but poor boys don t fit in their plans goodbye true love goodbye my sweet mary ann the weeks have gone by not a word have i heard since then in the papers i read of the far away places she s been i can t eat i can t sleep for over and over again my mind reads that letter and i cry for my mary ann mary ann regrets my mary ann died they said she just wasted away my mary had died too sad she just wasted away if i could have seen her i know she d be living today for we loved each other and if they had left us alone today she d be wearing my ring not a blanket of stone mary ann regrets 