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GUEST,Marie Lyr Req: High Germany (Pentangle) (12) Lyr Add: CRUEL SISTER 02 Oct 02


Dear Pam, here is (I hope) what you're after :


CRUEL SISTER


There lived a lady by the North Sea shore
(Lay the bent to the bonnie broom)
Two daughters were the babes she bore
(Fa la la la la la la la la la )

As one grew bright as is the sun
So coal black grew the elder one

A knight came riding to the ladys door
He'd travelled far to be their wooer

He courted one with gloves and rings
But he loved the other above all things

Oh sister will you go with me
To watch the ships sail on the sea?

She took her sister by the hand
And led her down to the North Sea strand

And as they stood on the windy shore
The dark girl threw her sister o'er

Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam
Crying sister reach to me your hand

Oh, sister, sister let me live
And all that's mine I'll surely give

Your own true love that I'll have and more
But thou shalt never come ashore

And there she floated like a swan
The salt sea bore a body on

Two minstrels walked along the strand
And saw the maiden float to land

They've made a harp of her breast bone
Whose sound would melt a heart of stone

They took three locks of her yellow hair
And with them strung the harp so rare

They went into her father's hall
To play the harp before them all

But as they laid it on a stone
The harp began to play alone

The first string sang a doleful sound
The bride her younger sister drowned

The second string as that they tried
In terror sits the black-haired bride

The third string sang beneath their bow
And surely now her tears will flow


(Don't hesitate to ask for more,
I've got 30 Pentangle'songs in store! :-)




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