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The song Lorena is performed by Waylon Jennings in the album named It's So Easy & Other Favorites in the year 2009 .

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the years creep slowly by, lorena,<br />
the snow is on the gra*s again;<br />
the sun's low down the sky, lorena,<br />

the frost gleams where the flowers have been.<br />
but my heart beats on as warmly now,<br />
as when the summer days were nigh;<br />
the sun can never dip so low,<br />
or down affections cloudless sky.<br />
<br />
a hundred months have pa*sed, lorena,<br />
since last i held that hand in mine,<br />
and felt the pulse beat fast, lorena,<br />

though mine beat faster far than thine.<br />
a hundred months, 'twas flowery may,<br />
when up the hilly slope we climbed,<br />
to watch the dying of the day,<br />
and hear the distant church bells chime.<br />
<br />
we loved each other then, lorena,<br />
more than we ever dared to tell;<br />
and what we might have been, lorena,<br />

had but our lovings prospered well.<br />
but then, 'tis past, the years are gone,<br />
i'll not call up their shadowy forms;<br />
i'll say to them, "lost years, sleep on!<br />
sleep on! nor heed life's pelting storms."<br />
<br />
the story of that past, lorena,<br />
alas! i care not to repeat,<br />
the hopes that could not last, lorena,<br />

they lived, but only lived to cheat.<br />
i would not cause e'en one regret<br />
to rankle in your bosom now;<br />
for "if we try, we may forget,"<br />
were words of thine long years ago.<br />
<br />
yes, these were words of thine, lorena,<br />
they burn within my memory yet;<br />
they touched some tender chords, lorena,<br />

which thrill and tremble with regret.<br />
'twas not thy woman's heart that spoke;<br />
thy heart was always true to me:<br />
a duty, stern and pressing, broke<br />
the tie which linked my soul with thee.<br />
<br />
it matters little now, lorena,<br />
the past is in the eternal past;<br />
our heads will soon lie low, lorena,<br />

life's tide is ebbing out so fast.<br />
there is a future! o, thank god!<br />
of life this is so small a part!<br />
'tis dust to dust beneath the sod;<br />
but there, up there, 'tis heart to heart.<br />



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Waylon Jennings - It's So Easy & Other Favorites