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Rasputina
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Willow Tree (Irish)
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 Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com 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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