(Say) Won't You Be Mine
CD: The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys--The Complete Mercury Recordings
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8vzk9Ne4Vc&list=OLAK5uy_ny2vcwy1eiVJh8Ki9r_t3ZQQBiD_3bJBw
Lyrics and Music:  Carter and Ralph Stanley arr. Traditional


[Intro]
      
      
      
      


[Verse 1]

Can’t you hear

 the nightbird

s crying
            
Can’t you hear

              
 that lonesome

 
 dove
      
Sayin’ won’t y

ou come back d

arling
            
To the only on

      
e you love


[Chorus]

Meet me out on

 the mountain
            
Underneath the

          
 lonesome pine
        
Where we vowed

 we’d love eac

h other
            
Darlin’ say wo

           
n’t you be min

e


[Instrumental]
      
      
      
      


[Verse 2]

Where the moun

tain laurels b

looming
            
And the wildwo

           
od blossom gro

w
        
There we vowed

 to love each 

other
            
In our childho

        
od long ago


[Chorus]

Meet me out on

 the mountain
            
Underneath the

          
 lonesome pine
        
Where we vowed

 we’d love eac

h other
            
Darlin’ say wo

           
n’t you be min

e


[Instrumental]
      
      
      
      


[Verse 3]

Then I left my

 little darlin

g
            
Lord I’ve ramb

            
led for too lo

ng
    
Many times I p

rayed to see h

er
            
Now I’m on my 

         
way back home


[Chorus]

Meet me out on

 the mountain
            
Underneath the

          
 lonesome pine
        
Where we vowed

 we’d love eac

h other
            
Darlin’ say wo

             
n’t you be min

 
e