Venita - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
VENITA! Copyright, 1885, by J. F. Martindale. 
Morn, noon and night, I call to thee! Beloved one, ah! answer me! Ah! answer me! Ah! Venita! loved Venita! Lonely through life I am roaming, Could I meet thee but to greet thee, As in days 'twere better to forget; Oft in visions I can see thee, Still by my side in the gloaming, But the waking from this dreaming, Makes life but one sad regret! Again we are singing the old duet, We sang when life was dear, And my heart still true as when last we met. Hides under each sigh a tear. Ah.' 
Chorus. Venita! loved Venita! Lonely through life I am roaming, Could I meet thee but to greet thee. As in days 'twere better to forget; Oft in visions I can see thee, Still by my side in the gloaming, But the waking from this dreaming, Makes life but one sad regret. 
I know were I beneath the ground, Life past with all its pain, Thy name, if breathed above my mound, Would thrill me to life again. If sinful I to heaven came, An entrance could not win, The gates eternal, at thy name, Would ope' and let me in. Ah!- Chorus.