Mary Ann Regrets Lyrics

I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours And today in the mail I received a short little note And I broke down inside the message that her mother wrote
Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then They know that she loves me but poor boys don't fit in their plans Goodbye, true love, goodbye, my sweet Mary Ann
The weeks have gone by, not a word have I heard since then In the papers I read of the far away places she's been I can't eat, I can't sleep for over and over again My mind reads that letter and I cry for my Mary Ann, Mary Ann regrets
My Mary Ann died, they said she just wasted away My Mary had died too sad, she just wasted away
If I could have seen her I know she'd be living today For we loved each other and if they had left us alone Today she'd be wearing my ring, not a blanket of stone Mary Ann regrets