We met in the springtime when the blossoms unfold
The pasture's green and the meadow gold
Our love was in flower as the summer grew on
Her love like the leaves have all withered and gone

Roses have faded and there's frost at my door
The bird of the morning won't sing anymore
The grass in the valley has started to die
And out in the darkness the whippoorwill cry

Alone and forsaken
By fate and by man
Oh, Lord, if You hear me
Take, hold my hand

Where has she gone to, where can she be
She may have forsaken some other like me
She promised to honor to love and obey
Each vow a plaything that she threw away

The darkness has fallen, the sky turns gray
The hound in the distance has started to bay
I wonder, I wonder what she's thinking of
Forsaken, forgotten without any love

Alone and forsaken
By fate and by man
Oh, Lord, if You hear me
Take, hold my hand

Alone and forsaken
By fate and by man
Oh, Lord, if You hear me
Take, hold my hand

Alone and forsaken
By fate and by man
Oh, Lord, if You hear me
Take, hold my hand
Please understand