No answer to my love letter

To sooth my achin heart

Why did God ever permit 

True love like ours to part



   No letter in the mail today

   No answer from my love

   Nobody knows what I've been through

   No one but God above



This is what I wrote to her

I know I'm to blame

Let me prove my love for you

Then I'll sign my name



I'm walking down this lonesome road

Travellin while I pine

If there's no letter in the box

I'll leave this world behind