Sailor's Plea Lyrics - Bill Monroe

Dear sweetheart as I write to you my heart is filled with pain 

For if those 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 built you that cozy home and made a garden there 

And planted too with my own hands sweet flowers rich and fair 

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