C C C Your mother's only son. If she had-a had one, F C If she had-a had one. Your mother's only son. C C My sisters born together. Whispering soldier. F C Winters getting colder, winters getting colder. G F Yeah you watch me getting older. C C C It was not a lonely summer. Absence love is manufactured. F C I was ready to be captured. Oh but hearts are made to fracture. C C I was waiting by the phone. For July Talk conversation. F C Oh my love you were so patient. Running still intoxication. G F Your mother's only son. She's not the only one. G F That watched me tell a lie. No, he's not the only one. C E7 Am That would leave me to die. C E7 Am Leave me to die. (By the river side) C E7 Am Leave me to die. Am F Make your little sister cry. There was romance in the waiting. Short phone calls understated. Secrets created. We made our homes in different places. Ecstasy ain't hard to come by. I met her in the month of May. Time came you went away. History remain. G F Your mother's only son. She's not the only one. G F That watched me tell a lie. No, he's not the only one. C E7 Am That would leave me to die. C E7 Am Leave me to die. (By the river side) C E7 Am Leave me to die. Am F Make your little sister cry. C E7 Am That would leave me to die. C E7 Am Leave me to die. (By the river side) C E7 Am Leave me to die. Am F Make your little sister cry.