All The Good Times Are Past & Gone
(Traditional)
Performer(s): Fred & Gertrude Gossett
and multiple other artists



I wish to the Lord I'd never been born
Or died when I was young
I never would have seen your sparkling blue eyes
Or heard your lying tongue

All the good times are past and gone
All the good times are o'er
All the good times are past and gone
Little darlin', don't weep no more

Don't you see that passing train
Coming around the bend
It's taking away my own true love
Never to return again

Don't you see that turtle dove
That flies from pine to pine
He's mourning for his own true love
Just like I mourn for mine

If you see my own true love
There's something I want you to tell her
Tell her to quit wastin' her time
Runnin' 'round with some other feller

Woody knows nothin' but peckin' on a bow
Under skies of blue
I never knew 'til I met you
What love, oh love could do

Come back, come back, my own true love
And stay awhile with me
For if ever I've had a friend in this world
You've been that friend to me

All the good times are past and gone
All the good times are o'er
All the good times are past and gone
Little darlin', don't weep no more