Love me

I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three.
Grandpa kept it in his coat and he showed it once to me.
He said "Boy you might not understand but a longlong time ago
Grandma's daddy didn't like me none but I loved your Grandma so."

We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together.
Get married in the first town we came to and live forever.
But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet instead
I found this letterand this is what it said:

If you get there before I do don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long I'll be.
But I'm not gonna let you down darling wait and see.
And between now and then till I see you again
I'll be loving you. Love me.

I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away
In the doorway of a church where me and Grandpa stopped to pray.
I know I'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years;
But as he said these words to herhis eyes filled up with tears.

If you get there before I do don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long I'll be.
But I'm not gonna let you down darling wait and see.
And between now and then till I see you again
I'll be loving you. Love me.

Between now and then till I see you again
I'll be loving you. Love me.