I bought a valentine for you Mary Lou I bought you a valentine today And it is a pretty one, I bought you a valentine today, but it cannot be sent so I will just put it in my suit jacket pocket and bring it to you real soon. Mary Lou, oh it is a bright pink With little cherubs all around And when you open it up There is a small pond. And beneath is the verse And it is just for you And it just says, Mary Lou I do love you. For thirty five long years, each valentine's day You would make me a devil's food cake And only ice your half. And I would as I recall, go by the dairy store And buy a half-gallon of Red Hart ice cream. Then we would after supper sit and laugh and eat And then snuggle up on the couch And let our love shine forth. Oh Mary Lou I do miss you, and wish you had not gone But I know it was the best, for now no pain you do bear. But why could it not have been me who got the thing And then you would still be here And I in the Promised Land. Mary Lou my love, it won't be long, Before we will be together again. For old Doc has told me that the spot Will take me too. But I bought you a valentine but I don't think I will put it in the mail, I think I will just put it in my suit pocket and Bring it to you this fall. And oh Mary Lou, there are so many things That I want to tell you, But most of all I just want to say, I bought you a valentine and I still love you.

� Tom ([email protected])