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Loreena McKennitt - The Wind That Shakes The Barley Lyrics

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  • I sat within a valley green, Sat there with my true love
  • My heart strove to choose between, Me old love and the new love
  • The old for her, the new that made, Me think on Ireland dearly
  • While soft the wind blew down the glade, And shook the golden barley
  • Twas hard the mournful words to frame, To break the ties that bound us
  • But harder still to bear the shame, Of foreign chains around us
  • And so I said, "The mountain glen, I'll seek at morning early
  • And join the brave united men", While soft wind shook the barley
  • Twas sad I kissed away her tears, Her arms around me clinging
  • When to my ears that fateful shot, Came out the wildwood ringing
  • The bullet pierced my true love's breast, In life's young spring so early
  • And there upon my breast she died, While soft wind shook the barley
  • I bore her to some mountain stream, And many's the summer blossom
  • I placed with branches soft and green, About her gore-stained bosom
  • I wept and kissed her clay-cold corpse, Then rushed o'er vale and valley
  • My vengeance on the foe to wreak, While soft wind shook the barley
  • Twas blood for blood without remorse, I took at Oulart Hollow
  • I placed my true love's clay-cold corpse, Where mine full soon may follow
  • Around her grave I wondered drear, Noon, night and morning early
  • With aching heart when e'er I hear, The wind that shakes the barley

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