You May Return To Me - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
YOU MAY RETURN TO ME. Copyright, 1894, by Spaulding & Gray. Words and Music by Walter P. Keen. 
A mother wept the day before her daughter was to wed; She gazed upon the bridal robes And anxiously she said: "To-morrow you'll be gone from me, but ere you go away I pray you to remember well the parting words I say: 
Refrain. "You may return to me: whate'er your lot may be, Where'er you roam, you'll know at home a welcome waits for thee. Love's vowe, however free, are naught but mystery; So, rich or poor, my girl, be sure you may return to me. 
"The vows that lovers make before the wedding often change; That, happened in your father's case, tho' you may think It strange; He fled from me with a fairer face soon after you were born. And that is why I think it right my only child to warn "-Refrain.