Jamie's Secret Lyrics - David Wilcox

Near river bend where the stream runs clear 

One winter morning of a day last year 

I heard a secret that I now can say 

Concerning Jamie, who's past away 

If you had known her then you'd agree 

Her smiling eyes could make a blind man see 

She laughed with innocence and she moved with style 

Full grown lover with childlike smile 

She moved out West where the air is clean 

To study poetry at Evergreen 

I thought I'd see her in a year or two 

Till we heard rumors 

That I feared were true 

They never found where she went that night 

The man she lived with said they'd had a fight 

She left that cabin to walk alone 

He kept the light on 

But she never came home 

She must have gone by the riverside 

The searchers say that's how she must have died 

The winter water was cold with snow 

An icy boulder 

And down she'd go 

Well I heard the news but I could not cry 

I should be shattered but my eyes were dry 

To feel no sorrow was my surprise 

But the words came easy 

For those last goodbyes 

Till I took a walk by the river bend 

Where once we lingered when she was my friend 

I tried to melt the river of tears inside 

The river flowed 

But joy I cried 

She may be gone from this life we know 

She may have frozen in the ice and snow 

There's a secret that my heart can't tell 

Except to say 

That she's safe and well 

Near river bend where the stream runs clear 

One winter morning of a day last year 

I heard a secret that I now can say 

Concerning Jamie, who's passed away