Kate's Secret - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
KATE'S SECRET. 
The sunlight is beautiful, mother, And sweetly the flowers bloom to-day, And birds in the branches of hawthorn Are carrolling ever so gay; And down by the rock in the meadow, The rill ripples by with a song; And, mother, I, too, have been singing The merriest all the day long. 
Last night I was weeping, dear mother, Last night I was weeping alone; . The world was so dark and so dreary, My heart it grew heavy as stone; I thought of the lonely and loveless, All lonely and loveless was I; I scarcely could tell why it was, mother, But, oh, I was wishing to die. 
Last night I was weeping, dear mother, But Willie came down by the gate, And whispered, "Come out in the moonlight, I've something to say to you, Kate." Oh. mother, to him I am dearer Than all in the wide world beside, He told me so- out in the moonlight, And called me his darling, his bride. 
So now I will gather my roses, And twine in my long braided hair; Then Willie will come in the evening, And smile when he sees me so fair; And out in the moonlight we'll wander, 'Way down by the old hawthorn tree-Oh, mother, I wonder if any Were ever so happy as we.