Looking high, high, high |
I once had a love and oh... |
I loved her very dearly |
She told me she loved me so |
I thought she spoke sincerely |
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But one day, away |
I found that she had flown |
And off to find that love of mine |
I set alone |
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Looking high, high, high |
Looking low, low, low |
Wondering why, why, why |
Did she go, go, go? |
For if I, I, I don't find my love, I know |
I shall die, die, die 'cause I love her so |
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I journeyed across the sea |
I sought her with devotion |
Oh, where she could really be? |
I've not the slightest notion |
But so bright the light of love within me shone |
I knew full well, what e'er befell, I must go on |
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Looking high, high, high |
Looking low, low, low |
Wondering why, why, why |
Did she go, go, go? |
For if I, I, I don't find my love, I know |
I shall die, die, die 'cause I love her so |
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Due east over desert sands |
Due west where grass is greener |
I asked in a dozen lands |
But none had ever seen her |
It was clear, I fear, my quest was all in vain |
So I departed, sad at heart, for home again |
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Looking high, high, high |
Looking low, low, low |
Wondering why, why, why |
Did she go, go, go? |
For if I, I, I don't find my love, I know |
I shall die, die, die 'cause I love her so |
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But when I arrived, all brown |
And tanned by wind and weather |
You sure could have knocked me down |
With the proverbial feather |
She stood there, so fair |
And sweetly she confessed |
That she'd been wrong |
And all along she'd loved me best |
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I'd looked high, high, high |
I'd looked low, low, low |
Wondering why, why, why |
Did she go, go, go? |
Now that I, I, I have found my love, I know |
Till I die, die, die, I will love her so |
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(Looking high, high, high) |
(Looking low, low, low) |
(Wondering why, why, why) |
(Did she go, go, go?) |
For if I, I, I don't find my love, I know |
I shall die, die, die 'cause I love her so |
(Looking high, high, high) |