Let's Not Try to Forget

All is forgiven but,
alls not forgotten
All is forgiven but,
let's not try to forget

Now Eliza,
come set the table
and dear Mary
don't dither, not if but
for a second

All is forgiven but,
alls not forgotten
All is forgiven but,
let's not try to forget

Oh, sweet Sandy,
might I sit down
here by your rocker?
Let's try maybe just for tonight
to play it off like
it wasn't the way
that it might be

I remember your father,
and my father too,
workin' down at the old quarry
workin' all day
and brawlin'
from nightfall 'til dawn

All is forgiven but,
alls not forgotten
All is forgiven but ...
but don't go tryin'
to leave me
here to my memories

Oh fair Melissa
you'll burn youself
there by the fire,
and old Jack,
you wiley tomcat,
though you seem
 to be apurrin'
you'll always be
the most fearsome lion
I ever did know