Near river bend where the stream runs clear   One winter morning of a day last year   I heard a secret that I now can say   Concerning Jamie, who's past away      If you had known her then you'd agree   Her smiling eyes could make a blind man see   She laughed with innocence and she moved with style   Full grown lover with childlike smile      She moved out West where the air is clean   To study poetry at Evergreen   I thought I'd see her in a year or two   Till we heard rumors   That I feared were true      They never found where she went that night   The man she lived with said they'd had a fight   She left that cabin to walk alone   He kept the light on   But she never came home      She must have gone by the riverside   The searchers say that's how she must have died   The winter water was cold with snow   An icy boulder   And down she'd go      Well I heard the news but I could not cry   I should be shattered but my eyes were dry   To feel no sorrow was my surprise   But the words came easy   For those last good-byes      Till I took a walk by the riverbend   Where once we lingered when she was my friend   I tried to melt the river of tears inside   The river flowed   But joy I cried      She may be gone from this life we know   She may have frozen in the ice and snow   But there's a secret that my heart can't tell   Except to say   That she's safe and well      Near river bend where the stream runs clear   One winter morning of a day last year   I heard a secret that I now can say   Concerning Jamie, who's passed away