All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
I wish to the Lord I'd never been born
Or died when I was young
I never would have seen your sparkling blue eyes
Or heard your lying tongue
Chorus
All the good times are past and gone
All the good times are o'er
All the good times are past and gone
Little darling don't you weep no more
Don't you see that passenger train
Coming around the bend
It's taking me away from this lonesome old town
Never to return again
Don't you see that lonesome dove
Flying from pine to pine
He's mourning for his own true love
Just like I mourn for mine
Come back, come back, my own true love
And stay awhile with me
If ever I've had a friend in this world
You've been a friend to me
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