My Antonia

B E B He said Oh my love Oh my Antonia B F# You with the dark eyes and palest of skin B E B Tonight I am going from Santa Maria B F# B Wait for me till I'm in your arms once again B E B She held me she kissed me begged me not to leave her B F# To cross on the mountain my fortune to win B E B But a letter now tells me she died of a fever B F# B I'll never see her in this world again F# B You are my sorrow you are my splendor F# B You are my shelter through storm and through strife F# B E You are the one I will always remember B F# B All off the days of my life B E B I curse the ambition that took me far from her B F# For a treasure not ever so fine or so fair B E B As the flash of her smile or the touch of her fingers B F# B The fire in her heart and the smell of her hair G#m F# She left me a note that cried Do not weep for me E B F# Behold you are with me as sure as the stars G#m E B That rise in the evening to shine down upon me B F# B Behold I am with you wherever you are B E B I can still hear him he calls to me only B F# What once was begotten shall come to no end B E B But the road is so long and the nights are so lonely B F# B My soul just to hold him in this world again F# B You are my sorrow you are my splendor F# B You are my shelter through storm and through strife F# B E You are the one I will always remember B F# B All of the days of my life B E B Oh my love Oh my Antonia B F# You with the dark eyes and palest of skin B E B How could I know that night in Santa Maria B F# B I'd never see you in this world again