Charlie and Nellie

Dear Nellie since I left the city

I've found I've changed my mind

I hope you wont think me untruthful

Or do me the least unkind

I think we're both mistaken

I know you'll never suit me

I owe my heart to another

Of course kind friends will agree

Please send me my ring and pictures

Also my letters and books

My clothes with many kind wishes

Respectfully yours Charlie Brooks

I heard all about it dear Charlie

I knew it would end this way

I hope you will always live happy

With your loving little wife Miss Gray

Now here's your ring dear Charlie

Dont give it to her I pray

Unless you tell her twas once mine

I wore it one year today

One year today dear Charlie

So happy were we both

You vowed you'd never forsake me

But I find you untrue to your oath

Here's your picture dear Charlie

It's almost faded away

Because I kissed it so often

And this you can tell Miss Gray

As far as your letters dear Charlie

I burned them as they came

I feared by reading them over

Would cause our love to inflame

I must say goodbye dear Charlie

My letter is near an end

Remember I'm always and always

Forever and ever your friend

Recorded 6/8/38 - Charlotte, NC