1. LONG, LONG BEFORE YOUR TIME

YOU ASK ME WHY I LOOKED SO SAD ON THIS BRIGHT SUMMER DAY
OR WHY THE TEARS ARE IN MY EYES, WHY I SEEM SO FAR AWAY
WELL SIT YOURSELF BESIDE ME LOVE, AND PUT YOUR HAND IN MINE
AND I’LL TELL YOU OF SOMEONE I LOVED, LONG, LONG BEFORE YOUR TIME

I’M SITTING HERE AND THINKING OF THOSE DAYS SO LONG AGO
WHEN I WAS JUST A CHILD LIKE YOU AND A GIRL I USED TO KNOW
THROUGH FIELDS OF GREEN WE LAUGHED AND PLAYED AND SANG OUR MERRY RHYMES
OH, SUMMER DAYS WERE WARMER THEN LONG, LONG BEFORE YOUR TIME

THROUGH CHILDHOOD YEARS OUR LOVE DID BLOOM
TIL’ OUR HEARTS WERE JUST AS ONE
WE PROMISED EACH ETERNAL LOVE IN THE CHURCH BELOW THE TOWN
WE SETTLED IN THIS LITTLE HOUSE, SHE WAS PROUD TO CALL HER OWN
OH, WE WERE YOUNG AND HAPPY THEN, LONG, LONG BEFORE YOUR TIME

ONE LOVELY YEAR WAS ALL WE HAD UNTIL THE SICKNESS CAME
THAT STOLE THE ROSES FROM HER CHEEKS AND MY TEARS THEY FELL LIKE RAIN
FOR NINE LONG MONTHS SHE CARRIED YOU BUT IN THE END SHE DIED
SHE CHOOSE TO GO SO YOU MIGHT LIVE, LONG, LONG BEFORE YOUR TIME

REPEAT FIRST VERSE

By: JOHN MCEVOY