Love Was Wedded In The Grave - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
Love Was Wedded in the Grave. Copyright, 1895, by Harcourt & Rein. Words by Charlie Rein. Music by Still Harcourt 
You've oft-times heard the story of those wedded without love, The old, sad, wistful story, ne'er sanctioned from above: A woman weak, not wicked, and a man who loved too well; If all hearts told their secrets, many stories they would tell; The fate of erring mortals this story tells you of, A young wife and a husband, but a sweetheart had her love: They were happy when together, but the time for them to part Came without a warning, and it left a broken heart. 
Chorus. Only a marriage without love, a mistake found out too late: Could heaven arrange the wedding and allow such souls to mate? Only a moment's pleasure, then a life-time filled with woe: If the heart but did the courting, fatal loves we ne'er would know. 
The sweetheart said. "Good-bye, my dear, and never prove untrue To him you promised to obey till death should call for you; I'll travel down life's path alone, the road so dark and drear, Without a gentle hand to guide or loving voice to cheer;" She tried to be contented, prove loving, kind and true; The world scoffed at her efforts, and said, "God pity you "-Her husband turned against her, and her sweetheart all she gave; They ended life together, love was wedded in the grave.- Chorus.