Follow Me

Jim Savarino © 2000

This song was inspired by a verse on a tombstone in Marshall County, West Virginia, in the year 1885.

After much too long I wandered home
Searched for my lost love, but she was gone
I walked alone, where we stood hand in hand
I saw a small white marble stand

I knew my love was gone before I read that stone
I knew my empty life, I would live alone
I said goodbye, through the tears I shed
And beneath her name these words I read

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Don't cry for me
Don't weep my dear
I am not dead, just sleeping here
And when my grave you come to see
Prepare for death and follow me

Now once more, I wander and I roam
I will never call these hills my home
Till my soul flies free and I have died
And they bury me at my love's side

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