WE MET
Sung by: Mrs. E.P.J. Garrott
Recorded in Batesville, AR, 7/18/52

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(Dr. Wolf: "Mrs. Garrott now sings a fragment of a song named 'We Met.' She learned it from her sister, Mrs. Charles H. Coffin, when she, Mrs. Garrott, was a child.")

We met, 'twas in a crowd,
And I thought he would shun me;
He came--I could not speak--
For his eyes were upon me.

I was leaning on the arm
As the bride of another.
Oh, thou hast been the cause
Of this anguish, my mother.

And once again we met,
And a fair girl was near him;
He bent and whispered low
As I once used to hear him.

Bright gems were in my hair,
And my feelings I smother.
Oh, thou hast been the cause
Of this anguish, my mother.

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