The Sailor's Pleas Lyrics - Jimmie Rodgers

Dear sweetheart, as I write to you 

My heart is filled with pain 

For if these things I hear are true 

I'll never see you again 

They tell me, darlin', that tonight 

You'll wed another man 

But if you do, I'll tell you true 

My boat will never land 

You promised that you would wait for me 

That nothin' could come between 

That in my arms someday you'd be 

My wife and lovely queen 

I builded you that cozy home 

And made a garden there 

And planted too with my own hands 

Sweet flowers rich and rare 

My future hopes are placed in you 

You've been my guidin' star 

Please write and tell me that you're true 

To the sailor who waits afar 

Just tell me that you love me yet 

Still long to be my wife 

I'll return and then we'll wed 

And live a happy life