When I was just a small lad of eight
Behind our home and up a ways~
There lived a girl some ten years older
And I'd wonder up to her home some day's~
I wrote her a note a way back then
On a little paper with a pen~
Saying how much I loved her
The longest time a way's back when~
Seems a lifetime had passed by when
A much older man was I~
and decided to go have a look
At my home town under mountains and blue sky~
A good thirty years later on
Wanted to see if anything was the same~
And by accident I met a mother of a childhood mate
Who told me there's someone who'd love to see you again~
She took me to a cabin out of town
Where there was a woman I did not know~
And when she found out who I was
Her face took on a cheerful glow~
She said stay there I've something to show you
And then rushed off into a room near by~
And came out with a little bit of paper
When I read it I almost cried~
This woman was dying of cancer then
And living out in the country all alone~
Seemed no body had ever loved her for herself
She stood there almost skin and bone~
But upon her face was still that beauty
And all that care and love was still within~
And when I read that little bit of paper
I never knew just where to begin~
I held out my arms to her
And hugged that childhood memory~
I thought back then she was ever so precious a soul
And on that day she still was same to me~
I could not believe that after all of that time~
She had kept that note that I wrote that day~
Back when I was but a little boy
And I Love You I needed to write and say~
I gave that girl the biggest hug
And two weeks after I had arrived back home~
I heard that she had passed away
In that cabin all alone~
I then found out she had never married in life
And lived mostly by herself it's true~
Just gardening and raising chickens
An old farm under mountain in valley dew~
I wonder why I do so often
How come some of the most beautiful are alone~
The dearest of heart and loving souls
To see life out on their own~
And I thank God this life is but a class in a school
With ever so much more to come closer to home~
As Gods earth bound angels need rewarding
For all the hardship upon earth that they have known~