Got a little story about Maiden's Prayer...

A few years back as I was leaving a music night, the host pressed a scrap of paper into my hand. 'See if you can make a song out of this,'he kind of mumbled.

Well, when I got home I looked at it- they were just short phrases that appeared to be an apology or a confession of some wrongdoing on his part (he is a married man) but I went to work. I kept some of the phrases, made it into a coherent whole, came up with a pretty tune, recorded it and gave the whole thing back to him. I noticed he seemed kind of surprised but I laid it to his guilty conscience.

A year or so later I was surfing the net and came across a reference to the lyrics of Maiden's Prayer, a pretty piece I knew only as a fiddle tune. 'Huh', I thought, 'I didn't know it had words.' I clicked on the link and there were my words. I was flabbergasted.

The link you gave above goes:

"Twilight falls, evening shadows find,
There 'neath the stars,   a maiden so fair divine.
The moon on high,   seemed to see her there,
In her eyes was a light, shining ever so bright,
As she whisper'd a silent prayer.

"Ev'ry word revealed   an empty broken heart;
Broken by fate that holds them so far apart.
Lonely there she kneels, And tells the stars above.
In her arms he belongs, then her prayer is a song,
Her unending song of love. "

Mine goes

"Twilight Waltz

"Twilight falls, evening shadows find
There 'neath the stars a fair maiden divine
The moon up on high seems to see her there
In her eyes there's a light shining ever so bright
As she whispers this prayer:

    "Oh, come back to me! Moon, send him to me
    You bright glittering stars were there when we met
    Sweet love of my years, your children I'll bear
    Oh, come back to me. Please listen to me
    Forgive and forget

"Every word reveals her sad, aching heart
He's broken her faith and now they're apart
Alone there she kneels, tells the stars above
In his arms she belongs. In her prayer there's a song
Of undying love"

Humph.