Joan Baez - Annabel Lee Lyrics
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.I was a child and SHE was a child,In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my ANNABEL LEE-With a love that the winged seraphs of heavenCoveted her and me.And this was the reason that,long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud,chillingMyANNABEL LEE;So that her high-born kinsmen came And bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulcher In this kingdom by the sea.AND the angels,not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me-Yes!-that was the reason(as all men know,In this kingdom by the sea)That the wind came out of the cloud by night,Chilling my ANNABEL LEE;That the wind came out of the cloud by nightKilling my ANNABELLEE.But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we-Of many far wiser than we-And neither the angels in heaven aboveNor the the demons down under the sea,Can ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful ANNABEL LEE: And the moon never beams,without bringing medreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;And the stars never rise,but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful ANNABEL LEE:And so,all the night-tide,I lie down by the sideOf my darling my life and my bride, In the sepulcher there by the sea- In her tomb by the sounding sea.