Emma

We were together since we were five
 She was so pretty
 Emma was a star in ev'ryone's eyes.
 And when she said she'd be a movie queen
 Nobody laughed
 Her face like an angel
 She could be anything.
 Emmalene. Emma
 Emmalene
 I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen.
 Emmalene
 Emma
 Emmalene
 I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever set
 At seventeen we were wed
 And worked day and night to earn our daily bread.
 And ev' ry day
 Emma would go out searching for that play
 That never ever came her way.
 You know
 Sometimes she'd come home so depressed
 I'd hear her crying in the back room
 Feel so distressed.
 And I'd remember back
 When she was five
 To the words that used to make
 Emmalene come alive.
 It was Emmalene
 Emma
 Emmalene
 It was cold and dark
 December night
 When I opened the bedroom door
 To find her Iying still and cold up on the bed;
 A love letter Iying on the bedroom floor
 It read:
 Darling, I love you
 But I just can't keep on living on dreams no more
 I tried so very hard not to leave you alone.
 I just can't keep on tryin' no more
 Emmalene - Oh Emmalene- Emmalene