[Intro] [Verse 1] It was on a fair September night That my lover came to me I said "Darling girl you’re strange to me now Not like you used to be" I remember you as a beautiful rose Out in the morning light But now your cheeks so silent and pale And you only walk at night [Interlude]              [Chorus] Oh yes the sun is hateful and sore On the racing streets at noon And so I wait alone through the day And like the jasmine bloom [Verse 2] Then she left me there as I lay in a thirst That water could not quell And her voice was sad and soft in her throat As she bid me last farewell [Interlude]              [Chorus] And now the sun is hateful and sore On the racing streets at noon And so I wait alone through the day And like the jasmine bloom [Outro]