BY THE GRAVE OF NOBODY'S DARLING
(Jimmie Davis)


Wilf "Montana Slim" Carter - 1936
Jimmie Davis - 1936
Asher & Little Jimmie Sizemore - 1936

Also recorded by: Girls Of The Golden West





Tonight as I kneel by my darlin'
I know that she's sleeping so sound
I watch the bright stars up in Heaven
As they shine on a newly made mound

Beneath the cold clay she lies sleeping
She has left this cold world behind
Tonight I know that she's in Heaven
She was nobody's darling but mine

She said she'd be nobody's darlin'
And her voice was sweet and so kind
As I sat by her side and she told me
She'd be nobody's darling but mine

Each night while the bright Moon is shining
While the flowers are covered with dew
I will kneel by the side of my darlin'
For I know that she loved me so true

Someday I know that I shall meet her
With the angels in Heaven so kind
Up there we'll be sweethearts forever
She was nobody's darling but mine

She said she'd be nobody's darlin'
And her voice was sweet and so kind
As I sat by her side and she told me
She'd be nobody's darling but mine






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2012)