Jubilee Lyrics

[ music: Traditional/lyric: arranged by 10, 000 Maniacs ] On one morning In the month of May When all the birds Were singing I saw a lovely maiden stray Across the fields at brea...Read Full Lyrics

[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: Robert Buck ] Greta's cedar hope chest Is full of pamphlets Glass shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with sedimentary prose Norma g...Read Full Lyrics

Come as we go far away From the noise of the street Walk a path so narrow To a place where we feel at ease Some think it is haunting To be drawn to the cemetery ground As we There...Read Full Lyrics

The sky was falling, Heaven was calling. When danger crashes, Rose from the ashes. Like two statues hidden inside ancient rock, We were praying for the secrets to unlock. And when ...Read Full Lyrics

The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey. Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again. With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather. A quiver in my l...Read Full Lyrics

The legs of Maddox kitchen tables My whole life twisted on a lathe In a foreman's torrent My first English was "faster boy if you want your pay" Barking commands Loud and simple We...Read Full Lyrics

[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant & Michael Walsh/music: J. C. Lombardo ] She borders the pavement Flanks avenues Parades pass white glove attended by My mother the war She'll raise a s...Read Full Lyrics

[ Jerome Augustyniak/Natalie Merchant ] Big plans are being made for my sisters wedding day. We'll have a ball at the Sons of Roma Hall. Family, friends come one and all. First ...Read Full Lyrics

You win a prize for that, for telling lies like that so well that I believed it. I never felt cheated. You were the chosen one, the pure eyes of Noah's dove. Choir boys and angles ...Read Full Lyrics

Music by 10, 000 maniacs - lyrics by mary ramsey Out through the foggy window there Just to see the eyes of my future children Looking back at me Back through the foggy window On ...Read Full Lyrics