A man I met in my youth   Came to me in the light of truth   A beautiful dream that was   Till he died one rainy fall   There I was a child bride   Widowed at ninteen, defied   Never would I let him go   Go to the place that heaven knows      On the evening of his death   My shoulders felt a brushing breath   Cold were his hands on my breast   The man that I loved and put to rest   He came to me and held me close   We danced til dawn in the early snow   There I felt him cry and cry      i'll never leave, leave your side      Oh the madness   This town thinks I'm mad   Sixty years, has it been a dream   This man I'm haunted by, I see      I'm eighty years and on my bed   Awaiting death, that final breath   He sits by and looks to me   "soon you will come and be with me"   Now I feel all warm inside   As I leave this mortal body behind   Seems it is eternal's way   We're waltzing into heaven's gate