Undone In Sorrow - Ola Belle Reed - Banjo cover

Undone In Sorrow is a song written by Ola Belle Reed. I sing and play it on mountain banjo. Riley Baugus performs this song about as well as anybody I ever heard play it.

Undone in sorrow - lyrics
Written by Ola Belle Reed
Banjo tuning fDGCD relative
Two finger thumb lead banjo

Over yonder in the graveyard
Where the wild, wild flowers grow
There she lay my true lover
She's gone from me forever more

Fairest than the sweetest flower
Restless as the wildest wind
Born with a love deep as the ocean
This was the girl that I did win

Left her there back in the mountains
To see the world, riches to gain
when I returned no earthly treasures
Could ease this heart so full of pain

Way up high upon that mountain
Beneath that little mound of clay
Oh, the girl that I returned to marry
So still among the flowers she lay

I'll go away and I will wander
Lay aside my earthly gain
I'll not end, as a man with riches
Undone in sorrow I remain
Undone in sorrow I remain