He Never Came Back - Carter Family

An old Jane about 49 came in to view the town

She registered up at Smith’s Hotel as Miss Ada Brown

She said she was just 25 and that she was in love

With a young lad about 16, she called him her turtledove

The wedding day at last arrived, the birds did merrily sing

He touched her up for a hundred to go out and buy the ring

He never came back, no, he never came back

He’s been gone for a year or more

That sassy young thing better have that ring

When we meet on that beautiful shore

I went down to a restaurant as hungry as a bear

And a raving thief I did, I grabbed the bill of fare

The waiter said, now what for you, a piece of steak, I said

He taken my order and bowed his head and slowly walked away