I like my tea as black as coal

She puts it on the night before as the cold wind blows through the summer window

Mary Margaret will you dance for me

She does a step across the floor as graceful as she was when she was seventeen

But soon the morning sun will come she draws the bed and folds her hands

Around her precious rosary and prays

Old ways, old ways never let you down they say

So I'll just take it day by day the only way that I know

Would you kindly bring my fiddle down

I'll draw the bow across the strings you hold the neck and turn the wooden keys around

Some unforgotten melody

The hands of time cannot erase although it's one I cannot trace she comes to me

And when the air was finished how the silence was as golden

As the hands and heart from which it had been played

Old ways, old ways never let you down they say

So I'll just take it day by day the only way that I know

Seasons come and the seasons go faces fade like the falling snow, they come and they go

I like my tea as black as coal

Old ways, old ways never let you down they say

So I'll just take it day by day the only way that I know

So I'll just take it day by day the only way that I know