My young love said to me, "My mother won't mind

Father won't slight you for your lack of kind."

And he stepped away from me and this he did say

It will not be long, love, till our wedding day." 


As he stepped away from me and he moved through the fair

Fondly I watched him move here and move there

And then he ... (here the song ends in the film.) 



(original lyrics going on with:)

... turned homeward with one star awake

Like the swan in the evening moves over the lake.


 The people were saying, no two e'er were wed

But one had a sorrow that never was said

And I smiled as he passed with his goods and his gear

And that was the last that I saw of my dear.


Last night he came to me, my dead love came in

So softly he came that his feet made no din

As he laid his hand on me and this he did say

"It will not be long, love, 'till our wedding day."