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    Dear Nellie since I left the city, I've found I've changed my mind,
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    I hope you won’t think me untruthful or do me the least unkind.
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    I think we're both mistaken, I know you'll never suit me,
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    I owe my heart to another, of course kind friends will agree.
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    Please send me my ring and pictures, also my letters and books,
                                          C          D              G
    my clothes, with many kind wishes, respectfully yours Charlie Brooks.

( G D G )

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   I heard all about it, dear Charlie, I knew it would end this way,
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   I hope you will always live happy with your loving little wife, Miss Gray.
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   Now here's your ring dear Charlie, don’t give it to her I pray,
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    unless you tell her 'twas once mine, I wore it one year today.
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    One year today, dear Charlie, so happy were we both,
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    you vowed you'd never forsake me, but I find you untrue to your oath.

( G D G )

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    Here's your picture dear Charlie, it's almost faded away,
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    because I kissed it so often and this you can tell Miss Gray.
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    As far as your letters dear Charlie, I burned them as they came,
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    I feared by reading them over would cause our love to inflame.
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    I must say goodbye dear Charlie, my letter is near an end,
                                      C         D           G
    remember I'm always and always forever and ever your friend.