Two Sisters

There lived a mother by the North Sea shore

(Way down, way down)

Daughters were the babes she bore

(Way down by the sea)

One grew radiant as the sun

Cruel grew the elder one

(I will be true to my love if my love will be true to me)

A man came knocking on their door

(Way down, way down)

He rode far across the moor

(Way down by the sea)

He courted both with gold and rings

But loved the younger above all things

(I will be true to my love if my love will be true to me)

Sister, walk with me outside

(Way down, way down)

Watch the ships come in from tide

(Way down by the sea)

And as the tide came crashing

The elder pushed the younger in

(I will be true to my love if my love will be true to me)

A man came walking down the strand

(Way down, way down)

Saw her body float to land

(Way down by the sea)

And as he looked her beauty on

His heart did break as sure as dawn

(I will be true to my love if my love will be true to me)

He made a harp of her breastbone

(Way down, way down)

The sound would melt a heart of stone

(Way down by the sea)

With the strands of her bright hair

He did string his harp so rare

(I will be true to my love if my love will be true to me)

He took the harp to the wedding hall

(Way down, way down)

There to play before them all

(Way down by the sea)

But when he set it on the stone

The heart began to sing on its own

(I will be true to my love if my love will be true to me)

And the harp sang out these tragic words

(Way down, way down)

“The bride did her sister curse”

(Way down by the sea)

“Now her secret you all know

And to the gallows she shall go”

I will be true to my love if my love will be true to me

I will be true to my love if my love will be true to me