[00:03.12]Once I had a sweetheart[00:09.29]A sweetheart brave and true[00:15.21]His hair was dark and curly[00:22.20]His loving eyes were blue[00:27.49]He told me that he loved me[00:33.21]And he often proved it so[00:40.40]And he often came to see me[00:45.10]When the evening sun was low[00:53.00]But fate took him away[00:59.00]To this awful German war[01:05.40]And when he came to say goodbye[01:11.00]My heart did overflow[01:17.40]He says, "Goodbye, little darling[01:22.49]To France I must go[01:31.21]He takes the golden finger ring[01:37.47]And he placed it on my hand[01:42.00]Said, "Remember me, little darling[01:49.40]When I'm in no man's land"[01:56.32]He promised he would write to me[02:01.02]That promise he kept was true[02:07.40]And when I read this letter, friend[02:14.31]I pray the war is through[02:20.00]The second letter I got from him[02:27.00]The war was just ahead[02:33.20]The third one, wrote by his captain[02:39.40]My darling dear was dead[02:46.30]I'll keep all of his letters[02:52.10]I'll keep his gold ring, too[02:57.20]And I'll always live a single life[03:03.21]For the soldier who was so true