Can't you hear the night birds cryin'
Can't you hear that lonesome dove
Sayin' won't you come back darlin'
To the only one you love

Meet me out on the mountain
Underneath the lonesome pine
Where we vowed we'd love each other
Darlin', say won't you be mine

Where the moun-tain laurel's bloomin'
And the wild-wood blossom grows
There we vowed to love each other
In our child-hood long ago

There I left my little darlin'
Lord I've rambled for so long
Many times I've prayed to see her
Now I'm on my way back home