BMI Work #: 9182187
Farewell Lovely Bonnie (Larry W. Jones 10/17/2007) (song#5077)

Deep in some lone valley
Beyond the purple sage
Where sad whippoorwills call
Upon their prairie stage
Farewell lovely Bonnie
There I will go to hide
But I will dream of lovely Bonnie
Wherever I may ride

My Bonnie don't want me
But I now understand
She wants a cattle baron
A big ranch house and land
And what I have none of
Is any silver or gold
But I could give her all my true love
More than ranch houses hold

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If I were a teacher
I'd write with a fine hand
Letters that might reach her
And her heart understand
I'd write by the river
Where waters flow so wide
And I would dream of lovely Bonnie
Wherever I may ride

Farewell lovely Bonnie
I'll dream of lovely Bonnie
Wherever I may ride