Sweetest Love by The Stanley Brothers
CD: The Stanley Brothers--The Complete Columbia Recordings
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMqajtMgS1U
Columbia Recorded The Stanley Brothers from 1949-1952
Standard Tuning
Key:  G


[Intro]
   
 

[Verse 1]

Here's a story

 of two childh

ood sweetheart

s
             
a love that we

              
 shared still 

    
untold
            
How our simple

              
 little vows t

         
hey were broke

n
             
And our love t

             
hat I treasure

            
d more than go

ld


[Chorus]

Are you tired 

of the life th

at you're livi

n'?
             
Does your mind

              
 wander back t

      
o the past?
      
Do you think o

f the love you

've forsaken?
             
Darlin' true l

             
ove is too swe

      
et to last


[Instrumental]
   
   
   
   


[Verse 2]
             
I remember tha

              
t night in the

 
 moonlight
            
When you said 

              
that you'd fou

           
nd someone new
             
Do you realize

             
 the heartache

        
 you've caused

 me
             
You should kno

              
w that my love

        
 was so true


[Chorus]

Are you tired 

of the life th

at you're livi

n'?
             
Does your mind

              
 wander back t

      
o the past?
      
Do you think o

f the love you

've forsaken?
             
Darlin' true l

             
ove is too swe

      
et to last


[Instrumental]
   
   
   
   


[Verse 3]
             
Alone and sad 

       
as I'm travell

ing
            
I'm lost on th

          
is sea of regr

et
             
Wandering back

             
 to the place 

      
of my childhoo

d
             
And the one th

              
at I've always

           
 loved the bes

t


[Chorus]

Are you tired 

of the life th

at you're livi

n'?
             
Does your mind

              
 wander back t

      
o the past?
      
Do you think o

f the love you

've forsaken?
             
Darlin' true l

             
ove is too swe

           
et to last