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I worked the tavern late one night / in old Shamokin town
Some raftsmen came in the month of May / to ride the river down
By moonlight they took refuge / within our shanty walls
And the one who played the fiddle / was the finest of them all

The men would drink and play / the ladies danced around the room
The fiddle player’s eyes met mine / I asked for one more tune 
He set his instrument aside / and took me in his arms
I knew then that I loved that lumberman / with all my heart

He danced his way into my bed / by morning, he was gone
With promises he would return / the next time spring did come
I kept his overshirt / the one that smelled like sweet white pine
And labored in the promise / that someday he would be mine

Summer’s heat and winter’s freeze / again did bloom to spring
They all returned to Shamokin / I heard the fiddle sing
But when I saw him dancing / with another in his arms
The lumberman did seal my fate / of death by broken heart

Up the stairs I flew / the cyanide gripped in my hand
I found a little closet / and I shut myself within
I donned his overshirt / the one that smelled like sweet white pine
And drank each drop of poison down
And etched out these few lines

Another love has won your heart / my hope and life are gone
My final wish - be true to her / I’ll die before the dawn
Faithless one, oh faithless one / how little can you know?