from now on all my friends are gonna be strangers i’m all through ever trusting anyone
the only thing i can count on now is my fingers
i was a fool believing you and now you are gone

all the love you promised would be mine forever i would have bet my bottom dollar on
well it sure turned out to be a short forever
just once i turned my back and you were gone
from now on all my friends…
[ guitar ]
it amazes me not knowing any better than to think i had a love that could be true
maybe i should be taken out torn and feathered than to let myself be taken in by you
from now on all my friends…

i’ll try anything that’s new if something old won’t do
if i can make you happy when you’re feeling blue
cause i love you yes i love you all of the time
i love every breath you take i love the love you make
i love the way you walk even when you walk away
cause i want you yes i want you all of the time
but don’t go too far when you walk away cause i want you near near me night and day
i can’t do without things you do for me in your own sweet loveable way
i love everything you do and everything you say
i love you most of all cause you always go my way
when i need you and i need you all of the time
but don’t go too far…

alone and forsaken by fate and by man
oh lord if you hear me please hold to my hand please understand
we met in the springtime when blossoms unfold
the pastures were green and the meadows were gold
our love was in flower as summer grew on
her love like the leaves now has withered and gone
alone and forsaken by fate and by man
oh lord if you hear me please hold to my hand please understand
the roses have faded there’s frost at my door
the birds in the morning don’t sing anymore
the grass in the valley is starting to die
and out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry
alone and forsaken by fate and by man
oh lord if you hear me please hold to my hand please understand
oh where has she gone to oh where can she be
she may have forsaken some other like me
she promised to honor to love and obey
each vow was a plaything that she threw away
alone and forsaken by fate and by man
oh lord if you hear me please hold to my hand please understand hold to my hand

always darling in all ways i belong to you and just to you alone
always for all of my days i will love you till the breath in my body is gone
so don’t ever doubt me for there never could be
anyone in this world who could take your place with me
i’ll love you always darling in all ways till my heart is true that’s how it will always be
[ harmonica ]
always darling in all ways love me too the way that i will always love you

among my souvenirs
writers horatio nichols, edgar leslie

there’s nothing left for me of days that used to be there’s just a memory among my souvenirs some letters tied in blue, a photograph or two i see a rose from you among my souvenirs a few more tokens rest within my treasure chest and though they do their best to give me consolation i count them all apart and as the teardrops start i find a broken heart among my souvenirs i count them all apart and as the teardrops start i find a broken heart among my souvenirs