Released: February 9, 1999
Songwriter: Sara Carter Maybelle Carter A.P. Carter
Producer: George Massenburg
[Verse 1]
And so you have come back to me
And say the old loves growing yet
You've tried through all these weary years
You've tried too vainly to forget
[Chorus]
Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives is back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth
[Verse 2]
Come close and let me see your face
Your raven hair is tinged with snow
Oh, yes, it is the same dear face
I loved so many years ago
[Chorus]
Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives is back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth
[Verse 3]
Farewell, I think I love you yet
As friend to friend, God bless you dear
And guide you through these weary years
To where the skies are always clears
[Chorus]
Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives us back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth
And so you have come back to me
And say the old loves growing yet
You've tried through all these weary years
You've tried too vainly to forget
[Chorus]
Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives is back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth
[Verse 2]
Come close and let me see your face
Your raven hair is tinged with snow
Oh, yes, it is the same dear face
I loved so many years ago
[Chorus]
Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives is back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth
[Verse 3]
Farewell, I think I love you yet
As friend to friend, God bless you dear
And guide you through these weary years
To where the skies are always clears
[Chorus]
Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives us back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Trio II (1999)
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris popular songs
- Wildflowers
- The Pain of Loving You
- I Feel the Blues Movin’ In
- Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
- High Sierra
- When We’re Gone, Long Gone
- After The Gold Rush
- Making Plans
- To Know Him Is to Love Him
- Hobo’s Meditation
- Telling Me Lies
- My Dear Companion
- Those Memories of You
- I’ve Had Enough
- Rosewood Casket
- Farther Along
- The Blue Train
- He Rode All the Way to Texas
- You’ll Never Be the Sun
- Feels Like Home
- Lover’s Return