ON A TREE

IN SIDE A HEART

A DULL BOY SCOUT KNIFE

TOOK HALF A DAY

TO CARVE

MIC HAEL LOVES

CA RO LINE

HE'D JUST TURNED TEN

AND SHE WAS NINE

THE SUM MER SHE

TURNED SWEET SIX TEEN

HE FINAL LY FOUND

HIS NERVE

AND TOOK HER OUT

TO SEE

AND WHAT SHE SAW

THROUGH HER TEARS

WERE SEV EN HEARTS

FOR SEV EN YEARS

AND THEY STOOD

BE NEATH THE

TREE OF HEARTS

AND THEY WATCHED

THEIR FEE LINGS GROW

AND THEY SWORE

THEY'D NEV ER BE A PART

TRUE LOVE

LEFT ITS MARK

ON THE

TREE OF HEARTS

THE TENTH TIME

HE CARVED THEIR NAMES

CA RO LINE'S DAD

WAS GIV IN' HER A WAY

THERE BE NEATH

THE SHEL TER OF

THE TREE OF HEARTS

THEY PLEDGED

THEIR LOVE

AND THEN FOUR HEARTS

DOWN THE ROAD

THEY BROUGHT

THE FIRST OF TWO BORN

HOME

AND THEY

PLAYED BE NEATH

THE TREE OF HEARTS

AND THEY WATCHED

THEIR CHIL DREN GROW

AND THEY SWORE

THEY'D NEV ER BE A PART

TRUE LOVE

LEFT ITS MARK

ON THE

TREE OF HEARTS

IN THE BLINK IN'

OF AN EYE

SOME HOW

FIF TY- SEV EN

HEARTS FLEW BY

FIF TY- EIGHT

FIF TY- NINE

SIX TY HE

MISSED CA RO LINE

AT SIX TY- ONE

MIC HAEL KNEW

THERE WOULD N'T BE

A SIX TY- TWO

NOW THEY LAY BE NEATH

THE TREE OF HEARTS

YOU CAN WATCH

THEIR LOVE STILL GROW

WHERE THEY SWORE

THEY'D NEV ER BE A PART

TRUE LOVE

LEFT ITS MARK

ON MY TREE

OF HEARTS

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