Another Place, Another Time

Long ago, far away but not forgotten
Love lives in this memory of mine
And when the night wind blows
Back through the years my memory goes
To another place, another time

I once loved a woman, her name was Delia Jones
She lived in the mansion on the hill
In the night she’d slip away
And stay with me ‘til break of day
In my cabin out behind her husband’s mill

When her husband heard the rumors ‘bout what his wife was doin’
He swore to hunt me down and hang me high
With his money power and pride
He had the law on his side
So I lit out on a cold and moonless night

I caught a train from Lenoir all the way to Baltimore
For a year the down town mission was my home
I was safe and I was free
But I was lone some as could be
And I longed for the love that I had known

So in the cold northern wind I was headin’ south again
Like a moth headin’ straight for the flame
I’ll either make her mine
Or God knows I’ll die tryin’
Life or death without her love it’s all the same

On the outskirts of town on the road I met a stranger
I said, Friend, do you know Delia Jones
He said, I’m sorry to have to say
But she’s been dead one year today
And why she took her life we’ve never known

Her husband always said that Delia went crazy
Her rich friends say Delia just got bored
Ah, but other folks say
A broken heart was to blame
The truth is only known to the lord

The years have blown by like the leaves of late Autumn
I can’t hold the love I left behind
But when the night wind moans
Back through the years my memory goes
To another place, another time
To another place, another time