Honey -- Goldsboro

See the tree, how big it's grown, but friend, it hasn't been too long it wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it was just a twig.
Then the first snow came and she ran out to brush the snow away so it wouldn't die
came runnin' in all excited slipped and almost hurt herself and I laughed 'til I cried.

She was always young at heart kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so
I surprised her with a puppy kept me up all Christmas eve two years ago.
And it would sure embarrass her when  I came in from working late 'cause I would know
that she'd been sittin' there crying over some sad and silly late, late show.
And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good And I'd love to be with you if only I could

She wrecked the car and she was sad and so afraid that I'd be mad but what the heck
though I pretended hard to be guess you could say she saw through me and hugged

my neck I came home unexpectedly and found her crying needlessly in middle of the 

day  and it was in the early spring when flowers bloom and Robins sing, she went away.
And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good And I'd love to be with you if only I could.

One day while I wasn't home while she was there and all alone, the angels came
now all I have is memories of Honey, and I wake up nights and call her name.
Now my life's an empty stage where Honey lived and Honey played and love grew up
A small cloud passes over head and cries down in the flower bed that Honey loved

And see the tree, how big it's grown, but friend, it hasn't been too long it wasn't big
and I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it was just a twig

he song's narraTtor mourns his deceased lover, beginning with him looking at a tree in their garden, remembering how "it was just a twig" on the day she planted it (with his disapproval). This single about the loss of a loved one hit #1 the week Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.   (wikipedia)