I Cried But My Tears Were Too Late Lyrics
Words and Music by Hank Snow<br />
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One heart too many I have broken ,<br />
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Love dreams that faded away.<br />
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Too many teardrops have fallen,<br />
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Too many vows cast aside.<br />
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Soft wedding bells should be ringing,<br />
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For us in the chapel tonight,<br />
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But this morning they tolled,<br />
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And her bright band of gold<br />
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Was returned with this message tonight:<br />
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CHORUS<br />
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Your sweetheart has left today,<br />
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Heart broken, God took her away.<br />
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That silk gown of white for her wedding tonight,<br />
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She wore as they laid her away.<br />
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Tho' she died for a love all in vain,<br />
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Her last words were calling your name;<br />
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As I walked to her grave where the blue bonnets wave,<br />
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I cried but my tears were too late.<br />
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POEM<br />
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Tonight, sweetheart, as I kneel here alone beside you<br />
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And my tears stain the flowers on your grave,<br />
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In deep regret I think of the heart that I have wounded<br />
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Of the sorrow, and grief, and the life I could have saved.<br />
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Yes, tonight darling, you were to be my loving bride<br />
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But all that I have left now as I bow to pray,<br />
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Is your ring, a picture, the sad message that they sent me,<br />
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And this rose that I am taking from your grave.
