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Near a river bend
Where the stream runs clear
One winter morning
Of a day last year
I heard a secret that I now can say
Concerning Jamie who's passed away
If you had known her then you'd agree
Her smiling eyes could make a blind man see
She laughed with innocence
And she moved with style
A full-grown lover with a childhood smile
She moved up west
Where the air's clean
To study poetry at Evergreen
I thought I'd see her in a year or two
Till we heard rumors that I feared were true
They never found where she went that night
The man she lived with said they'd had a fight
She left that cabin to walk alone
He kept the light on
But she never came home
She must have gone by the riverside
The searchers say that's how she must have died
The winter water was cold with snow
An icy boulder and down she'd go
I heard the news but I could not cry
I should be shattered but my eyes were dry
To feel no sorrow was my surprise
The words came easy for those last goodbyes
Till I took a walk by the river bend
Where once we lingered when she was my friend
Tried to melt the river of tears inside
Well the river flowed but joy I cried
She may be gone from this life we know
She may have frozen in the ice and snow
But there's a secret that my heart can't tell
Except to say she's safe and well
Near a river bend
Where the stream runs clear
One winter morning
Of a day last year
I heard a secret that I now can say
Concerning Jamie who's passed away