Your letter came this very day and it wiped all my dreams away
I read it o'er a thousand times it's left me with a worried mind

I wonder why you said goodbye and did you mean to make me cry
I guess until the day I die that I will still be wondering why
[ guitar - steel ]
I'd read the thought that we are through and that you found somebody new
I love you now I always will I'd rather die than say farewell

I wonder why you said goodbye...
[ mandolin ]
I hope and pray before my time that you'll come back and say you're mine
Bring back the love you took away and mend the heart you broke today

I wonder why you said goodbye...