This Orchid Means Goodbye
Carl Smith
The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956)

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Tonight I send an orchid and though I'll always care
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This orchid means goodbye to you and to our love affair
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It's just my way to tell you and I hope that you want cry
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But I belong to someone else, this orchid means goodbye

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When you said that you loved me, I knew it wouldn't do
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Cause I'm in love with someone else, I guess I love you too
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But I'm married to another, what chance of you and I
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So I just send an orchid dear, this orchid, means goodbye

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Our love might have been different, but I made sacred vows
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And I can't ever break the heart that I hold with mine now
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So please forget the past dear, as time goes passing by
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Cause we can't ever love again, this orchid means goodbye