emmylou harris
my antonia
He said "Oh my love. Oh my Antonia  You with the dark eyes and palest of skin  Tonight I am going from Santa Maria  Wait for me till I'm in your arms once again"  She held me, she kissed me, begged me not to leave her  To cross on 1he mountain my fortune to win  But a letter now tells me she died of a fever  I'll never see her in this world again  You are my sorrow, you are my splendor  You are my shelter through storm and through strife  You are the one I will always remember  All off the days of my life   I curse the ambition that took me far from her  For a treasure not ever so fine or so fair  As the flash of her smile or the touch of her fingers  The fire in her heart and the smell of her hair   She left me a note that cried "Do not weep for me  Behold you are with me as sure as the stars  That rise in the evening to shine down upon me  Behold I am with you wherever you are"   I can still hear him. he calls to me only  What once was begotten shall come to no end  But the road is so long and the nights are so lonely  My soul just to hold him in this world again   You are my sorrow, you are my splendor  You are my shelter through storm and through strife  You are the one I will always remember All of the days of my life  Oh my love, Oh my Antonia  You with the dark eyes and palest of skin  How could I know that night in Santa Maria I'd never see you in this world again