VALENTINE'S DAY
(Kitson/Kitson)
Transcribed by Phil Gardner
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She said it's a shame to be lonely, lonely on Valentine's Day,
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She said oh my man was a drinker, drank all the money away,
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She said oh I used to be pretty, with eyes the colour of lives,
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A life is just what happened to me when I was busy filling in time,
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She said oh my man was a gambler and he gambled the money away,
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And you never knew, when I was sixteen, I fell in love on Valentine's Day.
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She said are you courting a girl my boy, and is she pretty and wise,
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And does she rise and hold you every morning,
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The fire of love in her eyes,
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She said I loved once and once only,
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And he marched off on a bright April day,
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And you never knew, when I was sixteen, I fell in love on Valentine's Day.
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He was eighteen and fresh as the meadow,
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Where I kissed him and cried my goodbyes,
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And his skin was as soft as the high clouds,
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That hung in the bright April skies,
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So I married a friend of my father's, and I cried on my wedding day,
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'Cause you never knew, when I was sixteen I fell in love on Valentines Day.
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After three years they sent home a letter,
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Saying missing in action, presumed,
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So I went to the house of his mother and I stood all alone in his room,
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And my husband said What's the matter, you havn't said one word today,
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You never knew, when I was sixteen, I fell in love on Valentine's Day.
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So this Valentine's Day just remember,
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While you're living and breathing and warm,
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If there's one thing I know, it's to cherish,
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The love that forever is strong,
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One day your love may just vanish,
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Like the high clouds on a bright April day,
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And you never knew, when you were sixteen,
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You fell in love on Valentine's Day.
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So I won't let our lives happen to us, I won't let this love pass us by,
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I will rise and hold you every morning, the fire of love in my eyes,
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And each day I'll thank God for her story,
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And I'll thank God for bright April days,
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And the woman that told me that when she was sixteen,
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She fell in love on Valentine's Day.