Lyrics
"O, where have you been, my dear dear love
This long seven years and more?"
"O, I've come to seek my former vows
You granted me before"
"O, hold your tongue of your former vows
For they will breed sad strife
O, hold your tongue of your former vows
For I am become a wife"
He turned her right roundabout
And a tear blinded his eye
"I would never have trodden on this ground
If it had not been for thee
I might have had a king's daughter
Far, far beyond the sea
I might have had a king's daughter
If it had not been for thee"
"Ye might have had a king's daughter
Yourself ye had to blame
Ye might have took the king's daughter
For ye knew that I was named
If I were to leave my husband dear
And my two babes also
What have you to take me to
If with you I should go?"
"I have seven ships upon the sea
The eighth brought me to land
With four and twenty bold mariners
And music on every hand"
She's taken up her two little babes
Kissed them both cheek and chin
"Fare ye well, my own two babes
For I'll never see you again"
She set her foot upon the ship
No mariners could she behold
For the sails were of the taffety
And the masts of eaten gold
She had not sailed a league, a league, a league, but barely three
When dismal grew his countenance
And druggly grew his eye
They had not sailed a league, a league, a league, but barely three
Until she spied his cloven foot
And she wept right bitterly
"O, hold your tongue of your weeping
Of your weeping now let me be
I'll show you how the lilies grow
If you be still for me"
"O, what hills are they, those pleasant hills
That the sun shines sweetly on?"
"Those are the hills of heaven," he said
"Where you shall never want"
"O, what mountain is that," she said
"So dreary with frost and snow?"
"Ah, that is the mountain of hell," he cried
"Where you and I must go"
He struck the topmast with his hand
The foremast with his knee
And he braked that gallant ship in twain
And sank her in the sea
Written by: Matt Sweeny, Super-Wolf, Superwolf
