We fell in love on a green grassy hillside
In the springtime of life did we chance to meet
All the flowers were blooming and the birds were singing
The world and it’s riches did lay there at our feet

So sacred and tender was the young love a blooming
Once in a lifetime it happens that way
We made our pack for the day we would marry
We’d keep it a secret until our wedding day

Over those hills our love was forbidden
Not good enough was the words they did say
I wanted to marry that girl of the mountain
Happily we planned for our wedding day

Springtime had passed, then summer and fall
Old winter wind brought breezy white snow
The longer we sat on a green grassy hillside
The love we had shared was lost evermore

I moved away not knowing the reason
Waited so long for her to come
She did not come then there came a message
She’d wed another and left me alone

Young love in springtime on a green grassy hillside
Could not endure the heat and the cold
It was so strong while we were together
Separated it was lost like a rich man and his gold

Separated it was lost like a rich man and his gold