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Jim Reeves - The Letter Edged In Black Lyrics

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  • I was standin' by my window yesterday morning
  • Without a thought of sorrow or of care
  • When I saw the postman comin' up the pathway
  • With such a smiling face and jolly air.
  • He rang the bell and whistled as he waited
  • Then he said; "Good morning to you, Jack"
  • But he little knew the sorrow that he brought me
  • When he handed me a letter edged in black.
  • With trembling hands I took the letter from him
  • I open it and sifted what it said:
  • "Come home my boy, your dear old daddy wants you
  • Come home my boy, your dear old mother's dead."
  • --- Instrumental ---
  • "The last words your mother ever uttered
  • Tell my boy I want him to come back
  • My eyes are blurred, my poor old heart is breaking
  • As, I write to you this letter edged in black."
  • "Those angry words I wish I'd never spoken
  • You know I didn't mean them, don't you, Jack
  • May the angels bear me witness, I am asking
  • Your forgiveness in this letter edged in black."...

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