Poor Butterfly - Tony Bennett
There's a story told of a little Japanese
Sitting demurely neath the cherry blossom trees
Miss B_tterfly her name, a sweet little innocent child was she
Till a fine young American from the sea, to her garden came
They met 'neath the cherry blossoms every day
And he taught her how to love in the American way
To love with a soul was easy to learn
And he sailed away with a promise to return
Poor B_tterfly, 'neath the blossoms waiting
Poor B_tterfly, for she loved him so
The moments pass into hours, the hours pass into years
And there she smiled through her tears, she murmured low
The moon and I knew that he'd be faithful
She knew he'd come to a by and by
But if he n'er came back, she'd never sigh or cry
She just would die, poor B_tterfly
But if he n'er came back, she'd never sigh or cry
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