Intro:D Far away in sunny mountains, where the merry sunbeams play, there I wandered thru the clover, singing to a village maid. She was dearer than the dearest, ever loving kind and true, and she wore beneath her bonnet amber tresses tied in blue. ( ) Fate decreed that we be parted, ere the leaves of autumn fell, then two hearts were separated that had loved each other well. She was all I had to cherish, every loving kind and true, now I see in every vision amber tresses tied in blue. ( ) She was dearer than the dearest, ever loving kind and true, and she wore beneath her bonnet amber tresses tied in blue.