Oh the years creep slowly by Lorena the snow is on the ground again
The sun’s low down the sky Lorena the frost gleams where the flowers have been
But the heart beats on as warmly now as when the summer days were nigh
Oh the sun can never dip so low or down affection’s cloudless sky

A hundred months have passed Lorena since last I held that hand in mine
And felt the pulse beat fast Lorena though mine beat faster far than thine
A hundred months ’twas flowery May when up the hilly slope we climbed
To watch the dying of the day and hear the distant church bells chime

We loved each other then Lorena far more than we ever dared to tell
And what we might have been Lorena had but our loving prospered well
But then ’tis past the years are gone I’ll not call up their shadowy forms
I’ll say to them lost years sleep on sleep on nor heed life’s pelting storms

The story of that past Lorena alas I care not to repeat
The hopes that could not last Lorena they lived but only lived to cheat
I would not cause them one regret to rankle in your bosom now
For if we try we may forget were words of thine long years ago

It mattered little now Lorena the past is in the eternal past
Our heads will soon lie low Lorena life’s tide is ebbing out so fast
There is a future oh thank God of life this is so small a part
‘Tis dust to dust beneath the sod but there up there ’tis heart to heart

[1] Oh the years creep slowly by Lo-[5]-rena the [5] snow is on the ground [1] again
The sun’s low down the sky Lo-[5]-rena the [5] frost gleams where the flowers have [1] been
But the [6m] heart beats on as warmly [6m] now as when the summer days were [6m] nigh [5]
Oh the [1] sun can never dip so [4] low or [5] down affection’s cloudless [1] sky

A hundred months have passed Lorena since last I held that hand in mine
And felt the pulse beat fast Lorena though mine beat faster far than thine
A hundred months ’twas flowery May when up the hilly slope we climbed
To watch the dying of the day and hear the distant church bells chime

We loved each other then Lorena far more than we ever dared to tell
And what we might have been Lorena had but our loving prospered well
But then ’tis past the years are gone I’ll not call up their shadowy forms
I’ll say to them lost years sleep on sleep on nor heed life’s pelting storms

The story of that past Lorena alas I care not to repeat
The hopes that could not last Lorena they lived but only lived to cheat
I would not cause them one regret to rankle in your bosom now
For if we try we may forget were words of thine long years ago

It mattered little now Lorena the past is in the eternal past
Our heads will soon lie low Lorena life’s tide is ebbing out so fast
There is a future oh thank God of life this is so small a part
‘Tis dust to dust beneath the sod but there up there ’tis heart to heart