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Rasputina - Willow Tree (Irish) Lyrics

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  • The night was dark, the hour late
  • Cold blew the winter air
  • And as four farmers homeward walked
  • Down through the Lifford fair
  • Both sad and sharp it struck their ear
  • They thought they heard a cry
  • Said neither man nor animal
  • Although the winds blew high
  • They climbed the wall and searched the tombs
  • That thickly filled the ground
  • And spreading on a new-made grave
  • The sorrowful youth they found
  • His wild moans filled the chilly air
  • He looked pale and wild
  • His loud cries would have pierced your heart
  • For he wept like a child
  • They roused him from the cold wet eart
  • Inviting him away
  • He said move me not from this said spot
  • For here I mean to stay
  • This is my true love's grassy bed
  • And here all night I'll lie
  • All by the side of my long-lost bride
  • I will remain and die
  • In early life we whip had joined
  • In love both fond and true
  • There's not a care that touched my heart
  • But touched my feelings too
  • The times were bad and I was poor
  • It was then I went away
  • To make a fortune in strange lands
  • I crossed the roaring sea
  • Scarce before I went away
  • In wedlock's bonds we joined
  • It was then I left my tender bride
  • So lonely young and fond
  • For three long years I stayed away
  • I crossed the roaring sea
  • I won my fortune in strange lands
  • But there begins my grief
  • I came back on a summer night
  • Calm and fragrant was the air
  • She sat before her father's door
  • And had never looked so fair
  • I stood before her suddenly
  • And when I caught here eye
  • She clasped her hands before her face
  • And gave a piercing cry
  • The sudden shock then reached her heart
  • The story soon was told
  • When I came home her father gave
  • His hands to ancient gold
  • But all the gold that e'er was shown
  • Did fail to ease her mind
  • And like a tender flower crushed
  • Away she drooped and pined
  • Markwood followed after this
  • I need not stop to tell
  • In that day monster I could hear
  • The tolling funeral bell
  • Now I have done all with this Earth
  • And it has done with me
  • My love lies dead in her clay bed
  • Beneath yon willow tree
  • The stopped but neither force nor word
  • Could raise him from the ground
  • All night he lay on the cold clay
  • And next day he was found
  • And when they touched him he was dead
  • And where he lay he died
  • They dug his grave and side-by-side
  • They laid him with his bride

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