Lorena Songtext
von The Cumberlands

The years creep slowly by, Lorena
The snow is on the grass again
The sun′s down in the sky, Lorena
The frost gleams where the flowers have been
But the heart throbs on as warmly now
As when the summer days were nigh
Oh, the sun can never dip so low
In affection's cloudless sky


A hundred months have passed, Lorena
Since last I held that hand in mine
And felt the pulse beat fast, Lorena
Though mine beat faster for the nine
A hundred months, ′twas flowery May
When up the hilly slope we climbed
To watch the dying of the day
And hear the distant church bells chime

We loved each other then, Lorena
More than we dared to tell
And what we might have been, Lorena
Had our lovings prospered well
But then, 'tis past, the years are gone
I'll not call up their shadowy forms
I′ll say to them, "Lost years, sleep on
Sleep on, nor heed life′s pelting storms"

But then, 'tis past, the years are gone
I′ll not call up their shadowy forms
I'll say to them, "Lost years, sleep on
Sleep on, nor heed life′s pelting storms"