Oh, once I had a happy home, good clothes and money to spend Until my girl went back on me then all my troubles begin She said she loved some other man and would not marry me Now since she's turned me down for him I'm lonesome as can be I never loved no one but her, for her I would have died But now she loves another man, she has laid me aside She said I was the only one that she could ever love But she has lied and done me wrong, as sure as God's above I never can forget the time when she said we must part She said her love for me was gone, it almost broke my heart She always said she loved me more than anyone in the world But since this stranger came along, he stole my darling girl Oh, Mary, don't go, don't go, come back and see me once more