The Girl I Promised To Wed - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
THE GIRL I PROMISED TO WED Copyright, 1895, by Spaulding A Gray. Words and Music by Gussie L. Davis. 
It's best to be off with the old love, they say, Before you are on with the new; An old man told this to a youngster, one day, The adage is old, but true; He told of a girl that once loved him dear, But he played her false, then he said, I'll show you a photo and lock of hair Of the girl I promised to wed. 
Chorus. She had no fair face, nor fortune grand, But then she was true and tried; But I longed for wealth and beauty then, And sought to find both in a bride; For little I cared for the value of love, But learned in the years that have fled That she was the girl of a thousand girls, The girl I promised to wed. 
Whatever may come or whatever may go, The picture may fade year by year, There's yet a soft spot in my heart, where I know Her face will always be clear; Although I was faithless, the old man said, And married another instead, No love ever won her or called her wife. The girl I promised to wed.- Chorus.