YOUR OLD LOVE LETTERS
(Johnny Bond)

as recorded by Patti Page
February 1962


Today I burned your old love letters,
I burned them slowly, one by one.
Before I'd light the flame I'd read them
To try and find the wrongs I'd done!

The first you wrote me was the sweetest,
The last one broke my heart in two,
And all alone, I'm left here weeping
O'er the ashes of your letters tied in blue!

As I burned your old love letters,
I watched my dreams go up in smoke.
I lived again those precious mem'ries,
I heard each tender word you spoke!

The first you wrote me was the sweetest,
The last one said that we were through.
Our love is there, among the embers,
In the ashes of your letters tied in blue!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - April 2018)