You was the only one I’d-a ever knowed befo’, and you was the only one that ever made me feels like I was a somebody. I cain’t think of anybodies who ever made me thought I could do anything worth it. I was always caught up in a-doin’ what I was thinking they’d-a have me be doin’. Whatever it was, doin’ whatever I was told to do, like I was some milit’ry punk or somethin’. I never knewed that I could think for me self, have me my own thought and think about what’s that really mattered to me.

Is here that I stands, right by beside yo’ graves stone, and I weeps, because you was the only woman I ever knowed who loved me for what I am and for what you said ya saw in me. I cain’t be nothin’ without yous by my self, but for yo’ sake, I gonna go on, makin’ something of something; I don’t knows what it will be that I will be, but I goin’ to do what you wants of me. ‘Cause ever since I met a girl like you, I never been the same man.

They saying that love is a most powerful drug on the planet, and I knows that it is the truth, because I livin’ here right now, standing alongside yo’ graveside, not laying myself down there wit’ you, because I knows that you’d-a have me to livin’, not dyin’ down there afore my time is done.

I gonna wait the day till the good Lord sounding that trumpet up there in that there big blue sky, callin’ me a-home, to the great and wonderous home j’st ov’r that big ol’ blue horizon, that there sky theys a-callin’ home. I am gonna come a-home; I am a homeward bound, tills I gets to you, my sweet love pea.