The Sorrowful Wife Lyrics

It's difficultIt's very toughI said to the man who'd been sleeping roughTo sit within a fragrant breezeAll among the nodding treesThat hang heavy with the stuffHe threw his arms ar...Read Full Lyrics

We've laid the cables and the wiresWe've split the wood and stoked the firesWe've lit our town so there is noPlace for crime to hideOur little church is painted whiteAnd in the saf...Read Full Lyrics

Have mercy on me, sirAllow me to impose on youI have no place to stayAnd my bones are cold right throughI will tell you a storyOf a man and his familyAnd I swear that it is trueTen...Read Full Lyrics

They call me The Wild RoseBut my name was Elisa DayWhy they call me it I do not knowFor my name was Elisa DayFrom the first day I saw her I knew she was the oneShe stared in my eye...Read Full Lyrics

Say goodbye, my one true loverAnd we'll steal a lover's songHow it breaks my heart to leave youNow the carnival has goneOh my love, the dawn is breakingAnd my tears are falling rai...Read Full Lyrics

Adam watches his little Eve sleeping in a grief of snowNot knowing what to do or where to goHe packed his bags for the big cityOh, what else, lie around lying thereCoughing up her ...Read Full Lyrics

Down the road I look and there runs MaryHair of gold and lips like cherriesWe go down to the river where the willows weepTake a naked root for a lovers seatThat rose out of the bit...Read Full Lyrics

I went out walking the other dayThe heat hung wet around my neckMy head it rung with screams and groansFrom the night I spent amongst her bonesAnd I passed beside the mission house...Read Full Lyrics

Look-a look-a yonderLook-a look-a yonderLook-a look-a yonderWell the sun done goneThe captain can't hold her The captain can't hold her The captain can't hold her The way I do nowA...Read Full Lyrics

I was riding, I was riding homeThe sun, the sun, the sun was rising from the fieldI got a feeling I just can't shakeI got a feeling that just won't go awayYou've got to just keep o...Read Full Lyrics