Music arranged and performed by Dean Temple

Lyrics adapted by Dean Temple

She would twine and she would mingle her raven black hair

With the roses so red and the lilies so fair

The myrtle so green of an emerald hue

The pale emanita and islip so blue

Oh I promised to love her, I promised to love

To cherish her always all others above

She woke up to find that her idol was clay

Her passion for loving had vanished away

Oh I taught her to love me, I called her my flower

A blossom to cheer me through life's weary hour

But then I was gone and I left her alone

The wild flowers to weep and the wild birds to moan

Oh she’ll dance and she’ll sing and her life will be gay

She’ll banish her weeping, drive sorrows away

She’ll live yet to see me regret this dark hour