Dear sweetheart as I write to you my heart is filled with pain   For if those things I hear are true I'll never see you again   They tell me darlin' that tonight you'll wed another man   But if you do I'll tell you true my boat will never land       You promised that you would wait for me that nothin' could come between   That in my arms someday you'd be my wife and lovely Queen   I built you that cozy home and made a garden there   And planted too with my own hands sweet flowers rich and fair      My future hopes are placed in you you've been my guidin' star   Please write and tell me that you're true to the sailor who waits afar   Just tell me that you love me yet still long to be my wife   I'll return and then we'll wed and live a happy life