I Gave My Love a Diamond

Lyrics

I gave my love a diamond, a ten cent stone I gave her lonely teardrops and nights alone I gave my love a promise that had no truth What good is a promise without no truth? I gave my love a fortune in silver and gold I gave it to her lie, by lie, by lie, by lie that I had told I gave my love a story that had no end What good is a story that's got no end? Tell me I wrote her that we would marry In about, a-one years time I wrote her in a boxcar on the Memphis Line I sent my love a letter without no stamp, ha And what good is a letter without no stamp? Good-bye baby I'm feelin' so alone I'm movin' on I ain't got no small change And don't call me, I'll call you See ya!