 ¶ And the smile on my lips as I drift ¶ ¶ I heard the whippoorwill in the tree beside the door ¶ ¶ When my true love had to leave our home and go and fight the war ¶ ¶ Neither one of us could hide the flood of tears it left our eyes ¶ ¶ He promised he'd come home by solstice morn ¶