Tragic Love Lyrics - The Stanley Brothers

Come pretty young girls give me your attention 

To these few lines I've tried to write 

About a man who I won't mention 

Who courted of his charming bride 

And when her parents came to know him 

They tried so hard both day and night 

To separate here and her own true lover 

Her and her own true hearts delight 

She turned her back upon the city 

She viewed the fields and meadows round 

She came upon a broad river 

And in the shade of a tree sat down 

Her true love being not far behind 

He heard her make a mournful sound 

And looking on her lifeless body 

As she lay cold upon the ground