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If You Let Your Sweetheart Go

I had a sweetheart in Wisconsin
She said she would always stay
But I lost my money at the gamblin’ table
I lost my sweetheart the very next day

And if you see her tell her I love her
If you see her say hello
‘cos if you got dreams they will get broken
If you let your sweetheart go

I started walkin’ and I started wanderin’
Searchin’ for somethin’ that was lost,
I turned over tables, I emptied bottles
Slept in the gutter where everyone walked

Said if you see her tell her I love her
If you see her say hello
‘cos if you got dreams they will get broken
If you let your sweetheart go

I rambled ‘cross mountains down endless highways
Boys I sailed the seven seas
Had a thousand fevers, ten thousand dreams
Where that woman always came back to me

And if you see her tell her I love her
If you see her say hello
‘cos if you got dreams they will get broken
If you let your sweetheart go

At the end of my journey, beyond the horizon
Where the mountains meet the sea
There’s a lone woman standin’ at the Gates of Eden
Lord she’s callin’ out to me

And when I see her I tell her I love her
When I see her I say I know
‘cos if you got dreams they will get broken
If you let your sweetheart go