Oh My What A Shame
They were married in the old Church yardAnd they promised to be true to each otherNo matter how hard their lives might beBut like meteors that fell through moments parallelThey were soon to crossAnd on different plots of earth they both did fallThough their lives had really not been hard at all
Oh my what a shameNo one's to blameIt just happened that wayAnd there's nothing you can sayWhen two people say goodbyeOh my...
Two brothers, promised they'd returnWhen the war that they were fighting was overBut only one lived to keep his vowAnd the story I was told said he lived to be quite oldBefore time won outSomeone asked if he knew what they both fought forBut he could not recall he had ever been to war
Oh my what a shameNo one's to blameIt just happened that wayAnd there's nothing you can sayWhen two people say goodbyeOh my...
For there's nothing you can say when it's overAnd there's nothing you can do when it's doneThere's no battle you can winAnd there's nothing to beginThat's not begun
In this moment, I recall your faceAnd I wonder if you still think about meOccasionally I still think of youAnd I watch the river flow and I know I must let goBut it's oh so hardFor the waves are all around my small canoeI had always hoped this boat could carry two
Oh my what a shameNo one's to blameIt just happened that wayAnd there's nothing you can sayWhen two people say goodbyeOh my...