When we first met and fell in love, so many years ago,
We were so young and full of life, oh how I loved her so!
I still recall the picnic, once on a summer’s day,
When there were no other people, to interrupt our play,
She came softly to me, and whispered in my ear.
Don’t you know I’ll love you, all my living years.
I’ll give my heart and all my love as long as I shall live.
And in return one thing I ask, and hope that you will give.
It’s just a little part of you , I need and want you see,
And , sweetheart if you give it, you’ll not get it back from
me.
I want your heart forever, and maybe one more day.
So darling if you want me, that’s all you’ll have to pay.
Soon after that we married, and lived so happily.
And as for other women, none could I ever see.
We never did have children, much as we desired.
So it was just my Beck and me, our love always on fire.
She loved me like she said she would, and made my life
complete.
And I never hurt her, or caused a single
tear,
Because I loved my Becky, too much to ever cheat.
Now that was many years ago, and time has slipped by fast.
Some say I’m just a crazy man, for living in the past.
But now my body’s withered up in pain, and ravaged with old
age.
And Becky’s gone and left me, must be two years or more.
I pray to God that someday soon, He’ll open up this cage,
And let me fly away from here, and cool this awful rage.
So when the angel comes to take me to her, I’ll be sitting by the
brook,
Reading tear stained pages in Becky’s favorite Bible book.