Here's a story I will tell How I fell in love with you Darlin' many happy years Have passed away since you and I Were tiny little boy and girl Playin' 'neath the summer sky Do you recall the day I was bold enough to say I love you dear, I want you near And I still do Here's a story I will tell, how I loved ya little gal I was just a lad but still I knew that it was true because I was proud to say that I loved a little girl like you and I still do Darlin' let your mem'ry stray And try to picture you and me Roamin' through the open field And playin' in the hollow tree The rocky hills above I climb to show my love For my little gal, I loved so well And I still do Here's a story I will tell, how I loved ya little gal I was just a lad but still I knew that it was true because I was proud to say that I loved a little girl like you and I still do Darlin' close your weary eyes And let me take you by the hand And straight way lead you through the past Back to happy childhood land And there'll we'll live again The same as we did then Among the flowers, we claimed as ours And we still do Here's a story I will tell, how I loved ya little gal I was just a lad but still I knew that it was true because I was proud to say that I loved a little girl like you and I still do