Just one year ago today, love, I became your happy bride, changed a mansion for a cottage to dwell by the river side. You told me I'd be happy, but no happiness I see, for tonight I am a widow in a cottage by the sea. All alone by the seaside he left me, and no other's bride I'll be, for in bridal flowers he begged me in the cottage by the sea. From my cottage by the seaside I can see my mansion home, I can see those hills and valleys where with pleasure I have roamed. The last time that I saw him, oh how happy then were we, but tonight I am a widow in the cottage by the sea. All alone by the seaside he left me, and no other's bride I'll be, for in bridal flowers he begged me in the cottage by the sea. ( ) All alone by the seaside he left me, and no other's bride I'll be, for in bridal flowers he begged me in the cottage by the sea.