From this valley they say you are going,
We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are taking the sunshine
That brightens our pathway a while.
Won't you think of the valley you're leaving
Oh how lonely, how sad it will be?
Oh think of the fond heart you're leaving
And the grief you are causing me to see.
As you go to your home by the ocean,
May you never forget those sweet hours
That we spent in the Red River Valley,
And the love we exchanged mid the flowers.
There never could be such a longing
In the heart of a pure lover's breast
That dwells in the heart you are breaking
As I wait in my home in the West.
Come and sit by my side if you love me,
Do not hasten to bid me adieu,
But remember the Red River Valley
And the boy who has loved you so true,
so true, so true.
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