My love for her won't let me go away.
And leave her there to sleep forever
All alone beneath that lonely mound of clay
Why didn't you take me away
so I could have been there beside her
and prayed she wouldn't be taken away
but this sinner's prayers
I'll stay here beside you little darling
And I promise I'll never go away,
until my life here is over,
and I'll be with you beneath the clay.
Oh, Lord, why did you take her from me?
Why didn't you take me away,
so I could have been there beside her,
all alone beneath that lonely mound of clay.