David Wilcox Jamie`s Secret Lyrics

Jamie`s Secret Lyrics

from How Did You Find Me Here?

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JAMIE'S SECRET 



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



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