Oh My, What A Shame
They were married in the old church yard
And they promised to be true to each other
No matter how hard their lives might be
But like meteors that fell
Through moments parallel
They were soon to cross
And on different plots of earth
They both did fall
Though their lives had really not
Been hard at all
Oh my, what a shame no one's to blame
It just happened that way
And there's nothing you can say
When two people say goodbye oh my
Two brothers promised they'd return
When the war that they were fighting was over
But only one lived to keep his vow
And the story I was told said
He lived to be quite old before time won out
Someone asked if he knew what
They both fought for
But he could not recall he'd ever been to war
Oh my, what a shame no one's to blame
It just happened that way
And there's nothing you can say
When two people say goodbye oh my
For there's nothing you can
Say when it's over
And there's nothing you can do when it's done
There's no battle you can win
And there's nothing to begin that's not begun
In this moment I recall your face
And I wonder if you still think about me
Occasionally I still think of you
And I watch the river flow and
I know I must let go but it's oh so hard
For the waves are all around my small canoe
I had always hoped this boat could carry two
Oh my, what a shame no one's to blame
It just happened that way
And there's nothing you can say
When two people say goodbye oh my
And they promised to be true to each other
No matter how hard their lives might be
But like meteors that fell
Through moments parallel
They were soon to cross
And on different plots of earth
They both did fall
Though their lives had really not
Been hard at all
Oh my, what a shame no one's to blame
It just happened that way
And there's nothing you can say
When two people say goodbye oh my
Two brothers promised they'd return
When the war that they were fighting was over
But only one lived to keep his vow
And the story I was told said
He lived to be quite old before time won out
Someone asked if he knew what
They both fought for
But he could not recall he'd ever been to war
Oh my, what a shame no one's to blame
It just happened that way
And there's nothing you can say
When two people say goodbye oh my
For there's nothing you can
Say when it's over
And there's nothing you can do when it's done
There's no battle you can win
And there's nothing to begin that's not begun
In this moment I recall your face
And I wonder if you still think about me
Occasionally I still think of you
And I watch the river flow and
I know I must let go but it's oh so hard
For the waves are all around my small canoe
I had always hoped this boat could carry two
Oh my, what a shame no one's to blame
It just happened that way
And there's nothing you can say
When two people say goodbye oh my
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Writer(s): Don Mclean
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