Good-bye

I saw her, I swear!
I wasn't hallucinating she was right there.
Don't tell me it can't be so.
I'm not crazy, I know what I know.

She was wearing her wedding dress sitting in that chair,
running her comb threw her long brown hair.
She looked right at me, and gave that smile.
The one I haven't seen in a long, long while.

Whereupon she stood up and I heard her say,
"Darling I love you, but I can't stay."
Then just for a moment I looked away,
and when I looked back….
she was gone.

Now I know you think I've lost my mind,
but I assure you it's nothing of the kind.
I knew she'd come back, and I'll tell you why.
When she grew sick she looked me in the eye,

and said:

"If I go before you when I die,
and were not together don't you cry."
"For here's a promise on which you can rely,
I'll come back, and say-- Good bye."