Sweetheart In The Spring - Brier

It was on a summer’s evening when all the world stood still

Two lovers rambled down a lane to an old and whirring mill

He was leaving on the morrow for a land far far away

And as she nestled close to him she heard him softly say

«I'll return my little sweetheart, in the Spring

And for us those wedding bells will gaily ring

And when all the wrongs are righted

Our hearts will be united

I’ll return my little sweetheart, in the Spring.»

On the quay there stands a soldier in uniform so bright

He’s waiting for the big troop ship to take him to the fight

For the bugles they are blowing and the masts are pointed high

And as the cable settled down from below there comes a sigh

«I'll return my little sweetheart, in the Spring

And for us those wedding bells will gaily ring

And when all the wrongs are righted

Our hearts will be united

I’ll return my little sweetheart, in the Spring.»

In a cottage by the fireside sits a maiden young and fair

And as the tears roll down her cheeks, the letter she had there

And as she read it o’er and o’er it was more than she could bear

For e’er the morning dawned on her she was gone for all most fair

So they laid in her in a graveyard in the Spring

And for her those wedding bells would never ring

For among the dead and dying her soldier boy was lying

When they laid her in a graveyard in the Spring

«I'll return my little sweetheart, in the Spring

And for us those wedding bells will gaily ring

And when all the wrongs are righted

Our hearts will be united

I’ll return my little sweetheart, in the Spring.»