What harm would one more year done
Before you were stolen away?
Don't you think that I would have come
If I'd known what I know today?
But it wouldn't have made a difference
You were gone the day we met
Left me standing with my regrets
And a face I can't forget
I was going to the west
I'm riding over Tennessee
The southern blues are high again
But you would never come and see me
It ain't right but I'll pretend
That it wouldn't have made a difference
You were gone the day we met
A face I can't forget
She said that I was blessed
I was dying in the west