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Dire Wolf
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In the timbers of Fennario
the wolves are running round
The winter was so hard and cold
froze ten feet 'neath the ground
Don't murder me
I beg of you, don't murder me
Please
don't murder me
I sat down to my supper
'Twas a bottle of red whiskey
I said my prayers and went to bed
That's the last they saw of me
Don't murder me
I beg of you, don't murder me
Please
don't murder me
When I awoke the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window
All I said was "Come on in"
Don't murder me
I beg of you, don't murder me
Please
don't murder me |
The wolf came in, I got my cards
We sat down for a game
I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades
but the cards were all the same
Don't murder me
I beg of you, don't murder me
Please
don't murder me
In the backwash of Fennario
The black and bloody mire
The Dire Wolf collects his due
while the boys sing round the fire
Don't murder me
I beg of you, don't murder me
Please
don't murder me
Don't murder me
I beg of you, don't murder me
Please
don't murder me
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It
Must Have Been The Roses
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Annie laid her head down in the roses
She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know, it must have been the roses
All I know is I could not leave her there
I don't know
it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know
maybe it was the roses
All I know was
I could not leave her there
Ten years the waves rolled the
ships home from the sea
Thinking well how it may blow
in all good company
If I tell another what
your own lips told to me
may I lay 'neath the roses
and my eyes no longer see
I don't know
it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know
maybe it was the roses
All I know was
I could not leave her there |
One pane of glass in the window
No one is complaining, though,
come in and shut the door
Faded is the crimson
from the ribbons that she wore
and it's strange how no one
comes round anymore
I don't know
it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know
maybe it was the roses
All I know was
I could not leave her there
Annie laid her head down in the roses
She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons
in her long brown hair
I don't know, it must have been the roses
All I know was I could not leave her there
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| China
Doll |
A pistol shot at five o'clock
The bells of heaven ring
Tell me what you done it for
"No, I won't tell you a thing
"Yesterday I begged you
before I hit the ground--
all I leave behind me
is only what I found
"If you can abide it
let the hurdy-gurdy play--
Stranger ones have come by here
before they flew away |
"I will not condemn you
nor yet would I deny . . ."
I would ask the same of you
but failing will not die. . . .
Take up your china doll
it's only fractured--
and just a little nervous
from the fall
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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| To
Lay Me Down |
To lay me down
once more
To lay me down
with my head
in sparkling clover
Let the world go by
all lost in dreaming
To lay me down
one last time
To lay me down
To be with you
once more
To be with you
with our bodies
close together
Let the world go by
like clouds a'streaming
To lay me down
one last time
To lay me down
To lay me down
To lay me down
To lay me down
One last time
To lay me down |
To lie with you
once more
to lie with you
with our dreams
entwined together
To lie beside you
my love still sleeping
to tell sweet lies
one last time
and say good-night
to lay me down,
to lay me down
to lay me down
one last time
to lay me down
to lay me down
one last time
to lay me down
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| Bird
Song |
| . . . for Janis
All I know is something like a bird
within her sang
All I know, she sang a little while
and then flew on
Tell me all that you know
I'll show you
Snow and rain
If you hear that same sweet song again
will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet
is passing by
Laugh in the sunshine
sing
cry in the dark
fly
through the night |
Don't cry now
Don't you cry
Don't you cry
anymore
la-la-la-la
Sleep
in the stars
don't you cry
dry your eyes
on the wind.
La-la-la-la
la . . .
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| Ripple |
If my words did glow
with the gold of sunshine
and my tunes were played
on the harp unstrung
would you hear my voice
come through the music
would you hold it near
as it were your own?
It's a hand-me-down
The thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better
left unsung
I don't know
Don't really care
Let there be songs
to fill the air
Ripple in still water
when there is no pebble tossed
nor wind to blow
Reach out your hand
if your cup be empty
If your cup is full
may it be again |
Let it be known
there is a fountain
that was not made
by the hands of men
There is a road
no simple highway
between the dawn
and the dark of night
And if you go
no one may follow
That path is for
your steps alone
Ripple in still water
when there is no pebble tossed
nor wind to blow
You who choose
to lead must follow
but if you fall
you fall alone
If you should stand
then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way
I would take you home
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