Midnight On The Stormy Deep Lyrics - Bill Monroe

It was midnight on the stormy deep 

My solitary watch I'd keep 

And think of her I'd left behind 

And ask if she'd be true and kind 

I never shall forget the day 

That I was forced to go away 

In silence there my head she'd rest 

And pressed me to her loving breast 

Oh Willy don't go back to sea 

There's other girls as good as me 

But none can love you true as I 

Pray don't go where the bullets fly 

The deep deep sea may us divide 

And I may be some other's bride 

But still my thoughts will sometime times stray 

To thee when thou art far away 

I never have proved false to thee 

The heart I gave was true as time 

But you have proven untrue to me 

I can no longer call thee mine 

Then fare-thee-well I'd rather make 

My home upon some icy lake 

Where the southern sun refused to shine 

Then to trust a love so false as thine